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DouglasRushkoff_2018S-_数字未来时代，如何成为人类战队的一员_
I got invited to an exclusive resort to deliver a talk about the digital future to what I assumed would be a couple of hundred tech executives . 我曾应邀到一个高端度假村, 讲一下关于人类的数字未来, 去之前,我以为听众 是几百位科技高管。
exclusive:adj.独有的;排外的;专一的;n.独家新闻;独家经营的项目;排外者; resort:n.度假胜地;诉诸;采取;旅游胜地;v.去;凭藉; digital:adj.数字的;手指的;n.数字;键; assumed:adj.假定的;假设的;v.假定;假设;认为;承担;(assume的过去分词和过去式) executives:n.经理,主管领导,管理人员;领导层;行政部门(executive的复数)
And I was there in the green room , waiting to go on, and instead of bringing me to the stage, they brought five men into the green room who sat around this little table with me. 我在休息室,等待演讲的开始, 然而,他们并没把我领到台上, 而是领着五个人来到休息间, 和我一起坐在这样的小桌旁。
green room:n.[戏,影视]演员休息室;
They were tech billionaires . 这些人都是科技界的亿万富翁！
billionaires:亿万富翁(billionaire的复数);
And they started peppering me with these really binary questions, like: Bitcoin or Etherium? 他们开始连珠炮似地问些二元问题, 比如:比特币,还是以太币？
peppering:v.(在食物上)撒胡椒粉(pepper的现在分词) binary:adj.[数]二进制的;二元的,二态的; Bitcoin:比特币(电子货币的一种形式,是专为互联网交易而创造的货币);
Virtual reality or augmented reality? 虚拟现实VR,还是增强现实AR呢？
Virtual reality:n.(计算机创造的)虚拟现实; augmented:adj.增广的;增音的;扩张的;
I don't know if they were taking bets or what. 我不知道他们是在打赌 还是有其他目的。
bets:v.下赌注(于);用…打赌;敢说;八成儿(bet的第三人称单数)
And as they got more comfortable with me, they edged towards their real question of concern . 当他们和我熟络了以后, 就试探着问起了真正的关心问题:
concern:v.涉及,关系到;使担心;n.关系;关心;关心的事;
Alaska or New Zealand ? （当世界末日来临时,） 去阿拉斯加还是新西兰？
Zealand:西兰岛(丹麦最大的岛)
That's right. 一点没错,
These tech billionaires were asking a media theorist for advice on where to put their doomsday bunkers . 这些科技界的亿万富翁 在寻求一个媒体理论家的建议: 世界末日来临时, 去哪里才可以避祸。
media:n.媒体;媒质(medium的复数);血管中层;浊塞音;中脉; theorist:n.理论家; doomsday:n.世界末日;最后的审判日; bunkers:n.沙坑;[能源]燃料(bunker复数);
We spent the rest of the hour on the single question: "How do I maintain control of my security staff after the event?" 在一小时剩下的时间里, 我们全聚焦在一个问题上: “事件发生以后, 我如何保持对安保人员的控制？”
maintain:v.维持;保持;维修;保养;坚持(意见);
By "the event" they mean the thermonuclear war or climate catastrophe or social unrest that ends the world as we know it, and more importantly, makes their money obsolete . 他们所说的 “事件”, 指的就是大家所知的 由热核战争、气候灾难 或社会动荡带来的世界末日, 更重要的是,世界末日 让他们的钱毫无用处了。
thermonuclear:adj.[核]热核的;高热原子核反应的; catastrophe:n.大灾难;大祸;惨败; unrest:n.不安;动荡的局面;不安的状态; obsolete:adj.废弃的;老式的;n.废词;陈腐的人;vt.淘汰;废弃;
And I couldn't help but think: these are the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, yet they see themselves as utterly powerless to influence the future. 但我不禁想到: 这些人可都是当今世界 最富有、最有权势的人, 然而,他们却认为自己 对末日来临束手无策。
utterly:adv.完全地;绝对地;全然地;彻底地,十足地; influence:n.影响;势力;感化;有影响的人或事;v.影响;改变;
The best they can do is hang on for the inevitable catastrophe and then use their technology and money to get away from the rest of us. 他们能做的,就是 直面在劫难逃的命运, 然后用他们的技术和金钱, 远离我们这些等闲之辈。
inevitable:adj.必然的,不可避免的; technology:n.技术;工艺;术语;
And these are the winners of the digital economy . 数字经济时代的赢家们 竟然是这样的嘴脸！
economy:n.经济;节约;理财;
(Laughter) （笑声）
The digital renaissance was about the unbridled potential of the collective human imagination . 数字复兴, 把人类集体想像力 发挥到了极致,
renaissance:n.文艺复兴(欧洲14至17世纪); unbridled:adj.放肆的;激烈的;v.放纵;卸下马辔头;(unbridle的过去式和过去分词) potential:n.潜能;可能性;[电]电势;adj.潜在的;可能的;势的; collective:adj.集体的;共同的;集合的;集体主义的;n.集团;集合体;集合名词; imagination:n.想象;想象力;创造力;想象的事物;
It spanned everything from chaos math and quantum physics to fantasy role-playing and the Gaia hypothesis , right? 它涵盖了从混沌数学、量子物理, 到奇幻角色扮演和盖亚 假说的方方面面, 对吧？
spanned:adj.生活期有限的; chaos:n.混沌,混乱; quantum:n.量子论;额;美国昆腾公司(世界领先的硬盘生产商); fantasy:n.幻想; adj.虚幻的; v.空想; role-playing:n.角色扮演,角色模仿; Gaia:n.盖亚(希腊神话中的大地女神,等于Gaea); hypothesis:n.假设;
We believed that human beings connected could create any future we could imagine. 我们曾相信,人类联合起来 就可创造出我们想像的未来。
And then came the dot com boom . 接下来,互联网泡沫时代来临了,
boom:n.繁荣;吊杆;v.激增;繁荣昌盛;轰鸣;轰响;adj.(美)猛涨起来的;
And the digital future became stock futures. 而所谓的数字未来, 则变成了股票未来。
stock:n.股票; v.库存; adj.老一套的;
And we used all that energy of the digital age to pump steroids into the already dying NASDAQ stock exchange . 我们竭尽数字时代的所有能量, 为垂死的纳斯达克证券交易所 注入了一剂强心针。
pump:n.抽水机;泵;打气筒;v.用泵输送;涌出;奔流;快速摇动; steroids:n.甾族化合物;类固醇;(steroid的复数) stock exchange:n.证券交易(所);股票交易(所);
The tech magazines told us a tsunami was coming. 科技杂志告诉我们, 金融海啸就要来临。
tsunami:n.海啸;
And only the investors who hired the best scenario-planners and futurists would be able to survive the wave. 只有聘请了顶级全局策划者 和未来学家的投资者, 才能在这波浪潮中存活下来。
futurists:n.未来主义者; adj.未来主义的; (futurist的复数);
And so the future changed from this thing we create together in the present to something we bet on in some kind of a zero-sum winner-takes-all competition . 因此,未来从我们当下 共同创造的这个时代怪胎, 变为竞争中我们的押注, 这种类似于“零和”的, “胜者拥有一切”的竞争。
zero-sum:adj.零和的; competition:n.竞争;比赛,竞赛;
And when things get that competitive about the future, humans are no longer valued for our creativity. 当未来的竞争变得如此激烈时, 人类则不再因为拥有 创造力而受到重视。
competitive:adj.竞争的;比赛的;求胜心切的;
No, now we're just valued for our data. 不, 现在我们受重视 只因我们的数据而已,
Because they can use the data to make predictions . 因为他们可以使用 我们的数据进行预测。
predictions:n.预测,预言(prediction复数形式);
Creativity, if anything, that creates noise. 创造力,如果有的话, 只会产生不和谐因素,
That makes it harder to predict. 使预测变得更加困难。
So we ended up with a digital landscape that really repressed creativity, repressed novelty , it repressed what makes us most human. 所以我们最终得到的, 是一个数字蓝图, 它真正压制了创造力、 压制了创新性, 它恰恰压制了让我们之所以 成为人类的、最根本的东西。
landscape:n.景观;乡村风景画;(文件的)横向打印格式;v.对…做景观美化;美化…的环境; repressed:adj.被压抑的;被抑制的;v.抑制;镇压;约束;(repress的过去分词) novelty:n.新奇;新奇的事物;新颖小巧而廉价的物品;
We ended up with social media. 我们最终得到是社交媒体。
Does social media really connect people in new, interesting ways? 社交媒体果真以新的、有趣的 方式将人们联系在一起了吗？
No, social media is about using our data to predict our future behavior. 没有！ 社交媒体只是用我们的 数据,来预测我们未来的行为。
Or when necessary, to influence our future behavior so that we act more in accordance with our statistical profiles . 或者,在必要时, 影响我们未来的行为, 以便我们更多地按照 我们的统计概况行事。
in accordance with:依照;与…一致; statistical:adj.统计的;统计学的; profiles:n.配置文件; v.扼要描述;
The digital economy -- does it like people? 数字经济——它喜欢人类吗？
No, if you have a business plan, what are you supposed to do? 不！如果你有商业计划, 你一般会怎么实施？
supposed:adj.误信的;所谓的;v.认为;假设;设想;(suppose的过去分词和过去式)
Get rid of all the people. 远离所有人！
Human beings, they want health care , they want money, they want meaning. 人类,他们想要医疗、想要钱, 还想要存在的意义。
health care:n.卫生保健;
You can't scale with people. 如果雇佣人类的话, 公司规模不可能做大。
scale:n.规模;比例;鳞;刻度;天平;数值范围;v.衡量;攀登;剥落;生水垢;
(Laughter) （笑声）
Even our digital apps -- they don't help us form any rapport or solidarity . 即便是我们的数字应用—— 它们也无助于我们形成 任何融洽或团结的关系。
rapport:n.密切关系,交往;和谐一致; solidarity:n.团结,团结一致;
I mean, where's the button on the ride hailing app for the drivers to talk to one another about their working conditions or to unionize ? 我是说,打(租)车软件上有哪个按钮, 可以让司机们交流各自的工作环境、 或一起组建工会？
hailing:v.赞扬(或称颂);招手;跟…打招呼;向…喊;(hail的现在分词) unionize:vt.使…加入工会;使…成立工会;vi.加入工会;成立工会;
Even our videoconferencing tools, they don't allow us to establish real rapport. 即使是视频会议工具, 它们也不允许我们 建立真正的融洽关系。
videoconferencing:v.视频会议(videoconference的现在分词); establish:v.创立;设立;建立;确立;使立足;查实;
However good the resolution of the video, you still can't see if somebody's irises are opening to really take you in. 无论视频的分辨率多高, 你仍然无法看到对方眼睛虹膜 是否打开,以此判断是否认可你。
resolution:n.解决;分辨;解析;决议; irises:n.虹,虹状物(iris的复数); v.使…呈彩虹色;
All of the things that we've done to establish rapport that we've developed over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution , they don't work, you can't see if someone's breath is syncing up with yours. 我们历经几十万年演变、 为在彼此之间建立 融洽的关系所做的一切, 都不好使了, 你无法看到对方是否 与你同呼吸共命运。
evolution:n.演变;进化;发展;渐进;
So the mirror neurons never fire, the oxytocin never goes through your body, you never have that experience of bonding with the other human being. 因此,镜像神经元无法兴奋起来, 体内也不会有让人与人变得亲密的催产素, 你永远也不会再有与他人 同舟共济的那种经历。
oxytocin:n.[药]催产素;缩宫素;脑下垂体后叶荷尔蒙之一种;
And instead, you're left like, "Well, they agreed with me, but did they really, did they really get me?" 相反, 你会说, 嗯,他们同意我的看法, 但他们真正理解我的意思吗？
And we don't blame the technology for that lack of fidelity . 而且,我们不去责怪 造成交流失真的技术,
fidelity:n.保真度;忠诚;精确;尽责;
We blame the other person. 反而会去责怪对方。
You know, even the technologies and the digital initiatives that we have to promote humans, are intensely anti-human at the core . 即便是那些用于促进人类发展的 技术和数字计划, 其核心也是强烈反人类的。
technologies:n.技术;科技(technology的复数); initiatives:n.积极性;主动权(initiative的复数);创始; promote:v.促进;推动;促销;提升;晋升; intensely:adv.强烈地;紧张地;热情地; core:n.核心;要点;果心;[计]磁心;vt.挖...的核;
Think about the blockchain. 就拿区块链来说吧。
The blockchain is here to help us have a great humanized economy? No. 区块链是为了帮我们拥有 高度人性化经济的吗？不！
humanized:adj.人化的;人乳化;拟人(humanize过去式);
The blockchain does not engender trust between users, the blockchain simply substitutes for trust in a new, even less transparent way. 区块链并不能在用户之间建立信任, 区块链只是用一种 新的、更不透明的方式 取代了用户间的信任。
engender:vt.使产生;造成;vi.产生;引起; substitutes:n.替代品; v.用…代替; transparent:adj.透明的;显然的;坦率的;易懂的;
Or the code movement. 再譬如代码运动。
I mean, education is great, we love education, and it's a wonderful idea that we want kids to be able to get jobs in the digital future, so we'll teach them code now. 教育是伟大的, 我们都热爱教育, 这样的理念很棒: 现在就教孩子们编码, 以便能在数字未来 找到工作。
But since when is education about getting jobs? 但从何时起,教育就是为了找工作？
Education wasn't about getting jobs. 教育并不是为了找工作！
Education was compensation for a job well done . 教育是对出色工作的补偿。
compensation:n.补偿;报酬;赔偿金; well done:好样的,干得好;
The idea of public education was for coal miners , who would work in the coal mines all day, then they'd come home and they should have the dignity to be able to read a novel and understand it. 公共教育的初衷 是为了整日在矿山 工作的煤矿工人, 让他们下班回家后, 带着人生尊严看看小说,能读懂它;
miners:n.[矿业]矿工(miner的复数);煤矿工人; dignity:n.尊严;高贵;
Or the intelligence to be able to participate in democracy . 或让睿智之人能够参与民主管理。
intelligence:n.智力;智慧;才智;(尤指关于敌国的)情报; participate:v.参加;参与; democracy:n.民主,民主主义;民主政治;
When we make it an extension of the job, what are we really doing? 当把教育变成工作的延伸时, 我们到底在做什么呢？
extension:n.延长;延期;扩大;伸展;电话分机;
We're just letting corporations really externalize the cost of training their workers. 我们只是让公司 真正将培训工人的成本外部化。
corporations:n.[贸易]公司,[经]企业(corporation的复数形式); externalize:vt.给…以外形;使具体化,使客观化;
And the worst of all really is the humane technology movement. 而真正最糟糕的 却是人道科技运动。
humane:adj.仁慈的,人道的;高尚的;
I mean, I love these guys, the former guys who used to take the algorithms from Las Vegas slot machines and put them in our social media feed so that we get addicted . 其实,我喜欢这帮人, 在早期能将拉斯维加斯的 老虎机算法 应用到我们的社交媒体上, 就为了让大家上瘾。
slot:n.位置;狭槽;水沟;硬币投币口;v.跟踪;开槽于; addicted:adj.上瘾的;上瘾;成瘾;有瘾;入迷;
Now they've seen the error of their ways and they want to make technology more humane. 现在,他们看到了自己方式的错误, 想让技术更加人性化。
But when I hear the expression "humane technology," 但当我听到 人道科技 这个表达时,
expression:n.表现,表示,表达;
I think about cage-free chickens or something. 脑海里浮现的是 散养鸡或类似的东西。
We're going to be as humane as possible to them, until we take them to the slaughter . 在送它们进屠宰场以前, 我们会尽量人道地对待它们。
slaughter:vt.屠宰,屠杀;杀戮;使惨败;n.屠宰,屠杀;杀戮;消灭;
So now they're going to let these technologies be as humane as possible, as long as they extract enough data and extract enough money from us to please their shareholders . 所以,他们现在要让 这些技术尽可能人性化, 以便从我们身上能源源不断地 提取足够的数据、足够的金钱, 去取悦他们的股东们。
as long as:conj.只要;长达;如果;既然; extract:v.提取;取出;摘录;榨取;n.汁;摘录;榨出物;选粹; shareholders:n.[金融]股东,投资者;股民(shareholder的复数);
Meanwhile , the shareholders, for their part, they're just thinking, "I need to earn enough money now, so I can insulate myself from the world I'm creating by earning money in this way." 同时, 就股东们而言, 他们也只是在想: 我现在需要通过这样的 方式去赚足够的钱, 以便我能与自己所创的 数字世界隔离开来。
Meanwhile:adv.同时,其间;n.其间,其时; insulate:vt.隔离,使孤立;使绝缘,使隔热;
(Laughter) (笑声)
No matter how many VR goggles they slap on their faces and whatever fantasy world they go into, they can't externalize the slavery and pollution that was caused through the manufacture of the very device . 不管他们往脸上戴多少个VR镜, 也不管他们进入怎样的幻想世界, 均无法将制造这种装置所造成的 对他人的奴役和污染外部化。
goggles:n.护目镜;风镜;游泳镜;v.瞪大眼睛看;(goggle的第三人称单数和复数) slap:n.拍; v.拍; v.猛然; slavery:n.奴隶制;奴隶身份;蓄奴;adj.流口水的;被口水弄脏的; manufacture:v.(用机器)大量生产; n.大量制造; device:n.装置;策略;图案;
It reminds me of Thomas Jefferson's dumbwaiter . 这使我想起了 托马斯 · 杰斐逊的上菜机。
reminds:v.提醒;使想起;(remind的第三人称单数) dumbwaiter:n.升降机;餐桌旁的上菜架;
Now, we like to think that he made the dumbwaiter in order to spare his slaves all that labor of carrying the food up to the dining room for the people to eat. 现在,我们喜欢这样认为, 他做上菜机,是为了省去 奴隶们把食物带到餐厅 供人享用的所有劳动。
dining room:n.餐厅;
That's not what it was for, it wasn't for the slaves, it was for Thomas Jefferson and his dinner guests, so they didn't have to see the slave bringing the food up. 实情并非如此,才不是 为了省去奴隶们的劳动呢, 而是为了托马斯 · 杰斐逊 和前来就餐的客人们, 不用再看到奴隶把食物端出来。
The food just arrived magically , like it was coming out of a "Start Trek " replicator . 食物神奇地到达, 就像从 星际迷航 变换器变出来一样。
magically:adv.用魔法地;如魔法般地; Trek:v.长途跋涉;远足,徒步旅行;n.长途跋涉(尤指在山区); replicator:n.[遗]复制基因;重复符;
It's part of an ethos that says, human beings are the problem and technology is the solution. 这代表一种社会思潮, 认为人是问题的根本, 技术才是解决方案。
ethos:n.民族精神;气质;社会思潮;
We can't think that way anymore. 我们再也不能这样想了。
We have to stop using technology to optimize human beings for the market and start optimizing technology for the human future. 我们必须停止为迎合市场 而使用技术来优化人类, 而要开始为人类的未来去优化技术。
optimize:vt.使最优化,使完善;vi.优化;持乐观态度; optimizing:n.[数]优化,最佳化;adj.最佳的;v.最佳化(optimize的现在分词);
But that's a really hard argument to make these days, because humans are not popular beings. 但时下很难就这一点达成共识。 因为人类太不受欢迎。
I talked about this in front of an environmentalist just the other day , and she said, "Why are you defending humans? 就在前几天,我在一位 环保人士面前谈到了这一点, 她说:“你为什么要为人类辩护？
environmentalist:n.环保人士;环境论者;研究环境问题的专家; the other day:不久前某一天;几天以前;
Humans destroyed the planet. They deserve to go extinct ."
deserve:vi.应受,应得; extinct:adj.灭绝的,绝种的;熄灭的;vt.使熄灭;
(Laughter) （笑声）
Even our popular media hates humans. 就连我们的大众媒体也讨厌人类。
Watch television, all the sci-fi shows are about how robots are better and nicer than people. 看看电视就知道了, 所有科幻节目都是关于机器人 如何比人类好、比人类优秀。
sci-fi:n.科幻小说(等于sciencefiction);
Even zombie shows -- what is every zombie show about? 僵尸表演也不例外—— 僵尸表演的内容是什么？
zombie:n.行尸走肉;蛇神;木讷呆板的人;
Some person, looking at the horizon at some zombie going by, and they zoom in on the person and you see the person's face, and you know what they're thinking: "What's really the difference between that zombie and me? 有人看着地平线上的僵尸路过, 他们把人拉近放大, 定焦在人脸上, 你知道他们在想什么: 僵尸和我之间有啥区别？
horizon:n.地平线;(欲望、知识或兴趣的)范围;
He walks, I walk. 他能走,我也能走;
He eats, I eat. 他吃东西,我也吃东西;
He kills, I kill." 他杀戮,我也杀戮。”
But he's a zombie. 但他就是个僵尸而已！
At least you're aware of it. 至少,你知道这一点。
If we are actually having trouble distinguishing ourselves from zombies , we have a pretty big problem going on. 如果我们连区分自己和僵尸都做不到了, 那我们的麻烦可就大了！
distinguishing:v.区分;辨别;分清;看清;认出;听出;(distinguish的现在分词) zombies:n.僵尸;生性怪癖的人;僵尸电脑(zombie的复数);
(Laughter) （笑声）
And don't even get me started on the transhumanists . 超人类主义者们的负面陈词 就更是罄竹难书了！
transhumanists:超人主义者们;改进人种主义者;超人类(transhumanist的复数)
I was on a panel with a transhumanist, and he's going on about the singularity . 曾与我在同一个专家组的一位 超人类主义者是这样谈论奇点的到来:
panel:n.镶板;仪表盘;钣金;(衣服上的)镶条;v.镶板(用木或玻璃板等镶嵌或装饰); singularity:n.奇异;奇点;突出;稀有;
'"Oh, the day is going to come really soon when computers are smarter than people. “噢, 电脑比人聪明的 那一天将很快到来。
And the only option for people at that point is to pass the evolutionary torch to our successor and fade into the background. 而那时,人们唯一的选择, 就是把进化的火炬 递给我们的继任者, 并淡出到幕后。
option:n.选择;可选择的东西; evolutionary:adj.进化的;发展的;渐进的; torch:n.火炬;手电筒;火把;v.纵火烧(建筑物或汽车); successor:n.继承者;后续的事物; fade:v.褪色; adj.平淡的; n.[电影][电视]淡出;
Maybe at best, upload your consciousness to a silicon chip . 也许,最多只能把你的意识 上传到一个硅芯片上,
upload:v.上传; consciousness:n.意识;知觉;觉悟;感觉; silicon chip:n.硅片;
And accept your extinction ." 并接受自己灭绝的事实。”
extinction:n.绝种;
(Laughter) （笑声）
And I said, "No, human beings are special. 而我说:“人类不会灭绝。 人类是特别的。
We can embrace ambiguity , we understand paradox , we're conscious, we're weird , we're quirky . 我们可以接受歧义、理解悖论, 我们有意识,我们很奇怪、也很古怪。
embrace:n.拥抱,怀抱;v.拥抱;乐意采纳(思想、建议等);信奉;包括; ambiguity:n.含糊;不明确;暧昧;模棱两可的话; paradox:n.悖论,反论;似非而是的论点;自相矛盾的人或事; weird:adj.奇怪的;奇异的;离奇的;n.命运;宿命;命运女神; quirky:adj.古怪的;离奇的;诡诈的;
There should be a place for humans in the digital future." 数字未来应该会有人类的一席之地。 ”
And he said, "Oh, Rushkoff, you're just saying that because you're a human." 他说:“噢, 拉什科夫, 你这么说不过因为自己是类人罢了。”
(Laughter) （笑声）
As if it's hubris . 就好像我站着说话不腰疼似的。
hubris:n.傲慢;狂妄自大;
OK, I'm on "Team Human." 没错,我就是“人类战队”的一员！
That was the original insight of the digital age. 这就是数字时代的最初见解。
original:n.原件;原作;原物;原型;adj.原始的;最初的;独创的;新颖的; insight:n.洞察力;洞悉;
That being human is a team sport, evolution's a collaborative act. 成为人类是一项团队运动, 进化是一种协作的行为。
collaborative:adj.合作的,协作的;
Even the trees in the forest, they're not all in competition with each other, they're connected with the vast network of roots and mushrooms that let them communicate with one another and pass nutrients back and forth . 即使是森林里的树木, 它们也并非全都相互竞争, 它们与巨大的,盘根错节的 根系及菌类紧密连接, 使得它们能够相互交流, 并来回传递营养。
nutrients:营养盐;[食品]营养素; back and forth:前后移动的,来回的,反复的;
If human beings are the most evolved species , it's because we have the most evolved ways of collaborating and communicating. 如果说人类是进化最好的物种, 那是因为我们进化出了 最高等的合作和交流方式,
evolved:v.(使)逐渐形成;进化;进化形成;(evolve的过去分词和过去式) species:n.[生物]物种;种类; collaborating:v.合作;协作;通敌;勾结敌人;(collaborate的现在分词)
We have language. 我们有语言,
We have technology. 我们还有技术。
It's funny, I used to be the guy who talked about the digital future for people who hadn't yet experienced anything digital. 听起来很可笑,我曾是那个向 尚未体验过任何数字技术的人
And now I feel like I'm the last guy who remembers what life was like before digital technology. 而现在,我觉得自己是唯一 记得数字技术之前生活的人。
It's not a matter of rejecting the digital or rejecting the technological . 这不是拒绝数字产品 或拒绝技术产品的问题。
rejecting:v.拒绝接受;拒收;不录用;不出售,不出版;(reject的现在分词) technological:adj.技术[工程](上)的;因工艺技术高度发展而引起的;
It's a matter of retrieving the values that we're in danger of leaving behind and then embedding them in the digital infrastructure for the future. 这是一个恢复频临被抛弃的价值, 并将其嵌入未来数字基础架构的问题。
retrieving:v.(美)(计算机的)[计]检索(retrieve的ing形式);恢复;取回;补偿; embedding:v.把…牢牢地嵌入(或插入、埋入); (embed的现在分词) infrastructure:n.基础设施;公共建设;下部构造;
And that's not rocket science . 这不像火箭科学那么高深,
not rocket science:很简单的事;
It's as simple as making a social network that instead of teaching us to see people as adversaries , it teaches us to see our adversaries as people. 这简单的就像 让社交网络教我们 把对手当人看待, 而不要教我们把人当成对手。
adversaries:敌手;
It means creating an economy that doesn't favor a platform monopoly that wants to extract all the value out of people and places, but one that promotes the circulation of value through a community and allows us to establish platform cooperatives that distribute ownership as wide as possible. 这意味着,我们要创造的经济应杜绝 而应是一个通过社区 促进价值流通的经济, 以便让我们建立 尽可能广泛分权的平台合作体。
platform:n.平台; v.把…放在台上[放在高处; monopoly:n.垄断;垄断者;专卖权; promotes:v.促进;推动;促销;推销;提升;晋升;(promote的第三人称单数) circulation:n.流通,传播;循环;发行量; community:n.社区;[生态]群落;共同体;团体; cooperatives:n.[农经]合作社;合作企业;福利社(cooperative的复数); distribute:v.分发;分配;分销;分散;
It means building platforms that don't repress our creativity and novelty in the name of prediction but actually promote creativity and novelty, so that we can come up with some of the solutions to actually get ourselves out of the mess that we're in. 这意味着要建立这样的平台, 不以预测的名义来压制 我们的创造力和创新性, 而是真正地促进创造力和创新性, 以便我们能想出一些解决方案, 真正摆脱我们目前 所处的混乱局面。
platforms:n.平台; v.把…放在台上; in the name of:以…的名义; come up with:提出;想出;赶上; mess:n.混乱;餐厅;杂乱;肮脏;v.使不整洁;弄脏;弄乱;随地便溺;
No, instead of trying to earn enough money to insulate ourselves from the world we're creating, why don't we spend that time and energy making the world a place that we don't feel the need to escape from. 与其尽全力赚取足够的钱 以脱离我们正在创造的世界, 不如把这些时间和精力 花在把地球创造成一个 根本没必要逃离的地方呢？
There is no escape, there is only one thing going on here. 完全可以不用逃离, 大家需要同舟共济。
Please, don't leave. 拜托大家, 别走！
Join us. 加入我们吧。
We may not be perfect, but whatever happens, at least you won't be alone. 我们可能并不完美, 但无论发生什么, 至少你不用独自面对。
Join "Team Human." 加入 人类战队 吧,
Find the others. 团结其他人,
Together, let's make the future that we always wanted. 让我们携手,一起创造 所憧憬的未来。
Oh, and those tech billionaires who wanted to know how to maintain control of their security force after the apocalypse , you know what I told them? 对了, 还有那些想知道 如何保持对自己安全部队 控制的科技亿万富翁们, 知道我是如何回答的吗？
apocalypse:n.启示;天启;
'"Start treating those people with love and respect right now. “从现在开始,用爱 和尊重来对待那些人,
treating:v.以…态度对待;把…看作;处理;讨论;(treat的现在分词)
Maybe you won't have an apocalypse to worry about." 也许令你忧心的 世界末日就不会来临。”
Thank you. 谢谢。
(Applause) （掌声）