TED中英官方演讲稿-GregoryStock_2003进步是人类的天性.docxVIP

1.The future of life, and where the unraveling of our biology -- and bring up the lights a little bit. I dont have any slides. 未来的生活，以及目前生物学发展方向的—— 请把灯调亮一点，我不打算使用幻灯片。2.Im just going to talk -- about where thats likely to carry us. 只是单纯的谈论—— 生物学的发展可能把我们引向何方。3.And you know, I saw all the visons of the first couple of sessions. 在看过前面这些演讲 对于未来的构想之后。4.It almost made me feel a little bit guilty about having an uplifting talk about the future. 我甚至有一点负罪感，因为你们即将听到的 是对于未来的乐观估计。5.It felt wrong to do that in some way. 这样做感觉好像有点怪。6.And yet , I dont really think it is because when it comes down to it, its this larger trajectory that is really what is going to remain -- 然而，实际上我并不这样想， 因为尘埃落定之后，争论会烟消云散 只有重大的轨迹才会真正存留7.what people in the future are going to remember about this period. 成为未来人们对这段时期的唯一记忆。8.I want to talk to you a little bit about why the visions of Jeremy Rivkins, who would like to ban these sorts of technologies, or of the Bill Joys who would like to relinquish them, 我想对你们谈论的事情包括 为什么Jeremy Rivkins 禁止这些技术的理论 或者Bill Joys关于放弃这些技术的想法9.are actually, to follow those paths would be such a tragedy for us. 实际上对我们是一场悲剧。10.Im focusing on biology, the biological sciences. 我正在关注的是生物学， 关于生命的科学。11.The reason Im doing that is because those are going to be the areas that are the most significant to us. 我这样做是因为将对我们产生重大意义的领域 正集中在生物学之中。12.The reason for that is really very simple. 理由很简单，13.Its because were flesh and blood. 因为我们都是血肉之躯。14.Were biological creatures. 我们就是生命。15.And what we can do with our biology is going to shape our future and that of our children and that of their children -- whether we gain control over aging, 因此生物学的进展 将塑造我们的未来 以及我们子子孙孙的未来—— 我们能否控制衰老？16.whether we learn to protect ourselves from Alzheimers, and heart disease, and cancer. 是否能保护自己不受阿尔兹海默症的侵扰？ 或者远离心血管疾病以及癌症？17.I think that Shakespeare really put it very nicely. 我认为莎士比亚说得很好，18.And Im actually going to use his words in the same order that he di