TED中英官方演讲稿-BarrySchuler_2008P基因组学 101.docxVIP

1.Whats happening in genomics, and how this revolution is about to change everything we know about the world, life, ourselves, and how we think about them. 基因组学中正在发生什么 这场革命将如何改变我们所了解的关于世界、生命和自身的一切东西， 以及我们对这些东西的思考2.If you saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, and you heard the boom, boom, boom, boom, and you saw the monolith, you know, that was Arthur C. Clarkes representation 如果你看过《2001太空漫游》 你听到了隆隆声,看到了巨大的黑石树 这是亞瑟·查理斯·克拉克（《2001太空漫遊》原著作者）的表述3.that we were at a seminal moment in the evolution of our species. 我们都处于人类物种进化的重要阶段4.In this case, it was picking up bones and creating a tool, using it as a tool, which meant that apes just, sort of, running around and eating and doing each other 在电影中，这是指举起骨头同时创造了一个工具 把骨头当作工具使用意味着猿在某种意义上 在四处游荡，觅食和互相做爱时5.figured out they can make things if they used a tool. 已意识到他们可以使用工具来制作东西6.And that moved us to the next level. 这把我们推进到下一个水平7.And, you know, we in the last 30 years in particular have seen this acceleration in knowledge and technology, and technology has bred more knowledge and given us tools. 尤其在近30年 我们看到了知识和技术的高速发展 同时,技术产生新的知识,带给我们更多的工具8.And weve seen many seminal moments. 我们也亲历了更多的重要时刻9.Weve seen the creation of small computers in the 70s and early 80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person 在七八十年代我们经历了小型计算机的发明 在那时我们不会想到现在每一个人10.would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your PC but in every device -- in your washing machine, your cellphone. 不仅仅拥有一台电脑而是将近20台 在你家里，不仅仅是你的个人计算机还包括每一个数码设备 在你的洗衣机里，你的手机里11.Youre walking around; your car has 12 microprocessors. 你可以开着车四处走,车上装有12个微处理器12.Then we go along and create the Internet and connect the world together; we flatten the world. 接着我们继续前进,发明了互联网. 将世界联系在一起,使世界变平13.Weve seen so much change, and weve given ourselves these tools now -- these high-powered tools -- that are allowing us to turn the lens inward 我们已看到了如此多的变革,掌握了如此多的 强大的工具 使我们可以把镜头转向我们自身14.into something that is common to all of us