TED中英双语演讲稿Everyday inventions.pdfVIP

Everyday inventions Saul Griffith 2007-02-19 /talks/saul_griffith_everyday_inventions Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 So anyway, who am I? 好，我们开始吧。首先我是谁？ I usually say to people, when they say, What do you do? 别人问起我做什么的时候，我通常会跟别人讲 I say, I do hardware, “我是做硬件的” because it sort of conveniently encompasses everything I do. 因为那样可以很直接的涵盖我现在做的几乎所有东西 And I recently said that to a venture capitalist casually at some 最近在硅谷的一次活动上 Valley event, to which he replied, How quaint. 我就是这么跟一位风投说的。他说，这么怪！ (Laughter) （笑声） And I sort of really was dumbstruck. 我当时真的是傻呆了 And I really should have said something smart. 本来应该说点其他有趣的东西 And now Ive had a little bit of time to think about it, 后来想了一下 I would have said, Well, you know, 我现在可以这么回答 if we look at the next 100 years 要是我们往前看100年 and weve seen all these problems in the last few days, 我们过去几天看到了各种各样的问题 most of the big issues -- clean water, clean energy -- 那些大的问题，包括清洁饮水、清洁能源 and theyre interchangeable in some respects -- ——这两者某种程度上是可以相互转换的 and cleaner, more functional materials -- 以及更干净更具功能化的材料 they all look to me to be hardware problems. 在我看来，这些都是硬件层面的问题 This doesnt mean we should ignore software, 这不是说我们要忽视软件 or information, or computation. 或者信息或者计算 And thats in fact probably what Im going to try and tell you about. 这就是我今天演讲的内容 So, this talk is going to be about how do we make things 我要告诉大家我们怎么制造东西 and what are the new ways that were going to make things in the future. 以及未来我们将怎么制造东西 Now, TED sends you a lot of spam if youre a speaker 假如你是一位演讲嘉宾，TED会给你发来大量的垃圾邮件 about do this, do that and you fill out all these forms, 告诉你，要这么做，不要那么做，你还要填写大量的表格 and you dont actually know how theyre going to describe you, 你甚至也不知道他们会怎么描述你 and it flashed across my desk that they were going to introduce me as a futurist. 我刚才想到，似乎TED要将我描绘成为一个未来学家 And Ive always been nervous about th