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Hello. 大家好。
My name is Herman, and I've always been struck by how the most important, impactful , tsunami-like changes to our culture and our society always come from those things that we least think are going to have that impact. 我叫赫尔曼。 我一直在思考 为何这世上最重要、最具影响力、 最能翻天覆地,改变我们文化和社会 总是来自于 那些我们不认为会产生影响的事情。
impactful:adj.有效的;有力的;
I mean, as a computer scientist, 作为一个计算机科学家,
I remember when Facebook was just image-sharing in dorm rooms, and depending upon who you ask, it's now involved in toppling elections. 我记得当脸书还只是个 大学寝室发家的图片分享网站, 而现在,基于你问谁, 脸书已经可以左右我们的大选。
dorm:n.(美口)宿舍; involved:adj.有关的; v.涉及; (involve的过去式和过去分词) toppling:v.推翻(topple的ing形式);
I remember when cryptocurrency or automated trading were sort of ideas by a few renegades in the financial institutions in the world for automated trading, or online, for cryptocurrency, and they're now coming to quickly shape the way that we operate. 我记得当加密货币和自动交易 还只是小众人的想法 存在金融行业,自动交易行业, 和网络上。 而它们现在正加速塑形着 我们的办事习惯。
automated:adj.自动化的;v.(使)自动化;(automate的过去式和过去分词) renegades:n.叛徒;变节者;脱党者;vi.背叛;脱离;adj.叛徒的;背弃的;脱离的; financial:adj.金融的;财政的,财务的; institutions:n.机构;慈善机构;风俗习惯,制度;(institution的复数)
And I think each of you can recall that moment where one of these ideas felt like some ignorable , derisive thing, and suddenly, oh, crap , the price of Bitcoin is what it is. 你们每个人都应该记得一种时刻, 当一个想法看起来一无是处, 但突然,它发展得 正似比特币价值般突飞猛进。
recall:v.记起;回想起;使想到;勾起;召回;n.记忆力;记性;回归请求;回收令; ignorable:adj.可忽略的,可忽视的; derisive:adj.嘲笑的,嘲弄的;可付之一笑的; crap:n.废话;废物;屎;拉屎;vi.掷骰子;拉屎; 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);
Or, oh, crap, guess who's been elected. 你再想想,谁当选了美国总统？
The reality is that, you know, from my perspective , 现实是,在我看来,
perspective:n.观点;远景;透视图;adj.透视的;
I think that we're about to encounter that again. 我们将会再次遇到这情况。
encounter:v.遭遇,邂逅;遇到;n.遭遇,偶然碰见;
And I think one of the biggest, most impactful changes in the way we live our lives, to the ways we're educated, probably even to how we end up making an income, is about to come not from AI, not from space travel or biotech -- these are all very important future inventions -- but in the next five years, 我认为 对我们生活, 对我们如何受教育, 对我们如何挣工资 有着最大影响的 并非来自于人工智能技术, 并非是太空旅行或者生物科技, 虽然这些都是非常重要的科技, 但在下五年,
in the way:妨碍;挡道; is about to:眼看就要;即将;正要;行将; biotech:abbr.生物技术;生物科技(biotechnology);
I think it's going to come from video games. 我认为最大影响来自于电子游戏。
So that's a bold claim , OK. 好大的口气！我知道。
bold:adj.大胆的,英勇的;黑体的;厚颜无耻的;险峻的; claim:v.要求;声称;需要;认领;n.要求;声称;索赔;断言;值得;
I see some skeptical faces in the audience. 我也看到了观众中质疑的脸。
skeptical:adj.怀疑的;怀疑论的,不可知论的;
But if we take a moment to try to look at what video games are already becoming in our lives today, and what just a little bit of technological advancement is about to create, it starts to become more of an inevitability . 但让我们试着 看看电子游戏当下已变成了什么, 以及一点点的技术进步 将会创造出什么, 我们会发现电子游戏的影响是 越来越不可避免的。
technological:adj.技术[工程](上)的;因工艺技术高度发展而引起的; advancement:n.前进,进步;提升; inevitability:n.必然性;不可逃避;
And I think the possibilities are quite electrifying . 我认为它的可能性穷乎其穷。
electrifying:adj.令人振奋的; n.毛绒电光整理; v.使充电;
So let's just take a moment to think about scale . 让我们想想它的规模。
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;
I mean, there's already 2.6 billion people who play games. 现今已经有着26亿人玩电子游戏。
And the reality is that's a billion more than five years ago. 比五年前,多了十亿。
A billion more people in that time. 五年内增加了十亿人。
No religion, no media , nothing has spread like that. 没有任何一个宗教和媒体 可以如此大规模发展。
media:n.媒体;媒质(medium的复数);血管中层;浊塞音;中脉;
And there's likely to be a billion more when Africa and India gain the infrastructure to sort of fully realize the possibilities of gaming. 我们可以展望下一个十亿的增加, 当非洲和印度的科技发展到位, 可以充分发挥电子游戏的可能性。
infrastructure:n.基础设施;公共建设;下部构造;
But what I find really special is -- and this often shocks a lot of people -- is that the average age of a gamer , like, have a guess, think about it. 但我感到十分特别的是, 这常常会惊到他人, 是玩家的平均年龄。 你们猜一猜。
gamer:n.玩家,博弈者;
It's not six, it's not 18, it's not 12. 并不是六岁,不是18岁, 也不是12岁。
It's 34. 是34岁。
[Average age of an American gamer] [美国玩家平均年龄]
It's older than me. 我都比这年轻。
And that tells us something, that this isn't entertainment for children anymore. 这也告诉我们, 游戏不再是儿童的娱乐。
This is already a medium like literature or anything else that's becoming a fundamental part of our lives. 它已成为像文学一般的媒介, 是我们生活不可或缺的一部分。
medium:n.(传播信息的)媒介;手段;工具;方法;adj.中等的;中号的; literature:n.文学;文献;文艺;著作; or anything else:或什么别的;或任何东西其他; fundamental:n.基础; adj.十分重大的;
One stat I like is that people who generally picked up gaming in the last sort of 15, 20 years generally don't stop. 我很喜欢的一组数据显示了 不会放弃这个喜好。
stat:n.静;斯达(放射性强度单位); generally:adv.通常;普遍地,一般地;
Something changed in the way that this medium is organized . 在这一媒介发展的途中, 有些东西变了。
organized:adj.有组织的; v.组织; (organize的过去分词和过去式)
And more than that, it's not just play anymore, right? 这已经大于游戏本身, 人们不再仅仅是玩游戏了。
You've heard some examples today, but people are earning an income playing games. 你听到过这些例子, 人们现在通过打游戏挣工资。
And not in the obvious ways. 还不是通过直接的游戏竞技。
obvious:adj.明显的;显著的;平淡无奇的;
Yes, there's e-sports , there's prizes, there's the opportunity to make money in a competitive way. 是的,现今有电子竞技,有奖金, 有很多机会可以让人们从竞赛中挣钱。
e-sports:电子竞技;电子竞技运动;电子体育; competitive:adj.竞争的;比赛的;求胜心切的;
But there's also people earning incomes modding games, building content in them, doing art in them. 但是也有很多人正在游戏中模组, 设计桥段, 在游戏中做艺术, 通过这些得到薪酬。
modding:n.改装(电脑设备等); content:n.内容,目录;满足;容量;adj.满意的;vt.使满足;
I mean, there's something at a scale akin to the Florentine Renaissance , happening on your kid's iPhone in your living room . 这种规模堪比佛罗伦萨文艺复兴, 而这一切可能就发生在你的客厅里 孩子正玩弄的iPhone中。
akin:adj.类似的;同类的;同族的; Florentine:adj.意大利佛罗伦萨的;佛罗伦萨画派的;n.佛罗伦萨人; Renaissance:n.文艺复兴(欧洲14至17世纪); living room:n.客厅;起居室;
And it's being ignored . 它被很多人忽略了。
ignored:v.忽视;对…不予理会;佯装未见;不予理睬;(ignore的过去分词和过去式)
Now, what's even more exciting for me is what's about to happen. 现在,让我更加兴奋的是 未来还会发生什么。
And when you think about gaming, you're probably already imagining that it features these massive , infinite worlds, but the truth is, games have been deeply limited for a very long time in a way that kind of we in the industry have tried very hard to cover up with as much trickery as possible. 当你想到游戏 , 你可能已经在想象 游戏中无限的世界, 游戏在很长一段时间中, 都被限制了, 而我们这些业界人士 一直努力用各种伎俩 把这一事实掩盖。
massive:adj.大量的;巨大的,厚重的;魁伟的; infinite:adj.无限的,无穷的; n.无限; limited:adj.有限的; n.高级快车; v.限制; (limit的过去分词和过去式) trickery:n.欺骗;诡计;奸计;
The metaphor I like to use, if you'd let me geek out for a moment, is the notion of a theater. 我喜欢用一个比喻, 让我变身极客稍许卖弄一下, 在过去的十年中,
metaphor:n.暗喻,隐喻;比喻说法; geek:n.做低级滑稽表演的人,反常的人; n.(俚)极客,即智力超群,善于钻研但不懂与人交往的怪才; notion:n.观念;信念;理解;
For the last 10 years, games have massively advanced the visual effects, the physical immersion , the front end of games. 在过去的十年中, 游戏的视觉效果得到了很大的提升, 包括前端效果和视觉冲击。
massively:adv.大量地;沉重地;庄严地; advanced:adj.先进的; v.前进; (advance的过去式和过去分词形式) visual:adj.视觉的,视力的;栩栩如生的; physical:adj.[物]物理的;身体的;物质的;符合自然法则的;n.体格检查; immersion:n.沉浸;陷入;专心;
But behind the scenes , the actual experiential reality of a game world has remained woefully limited. 但在幕后, 游戏世界的经验实在 仍然被限制。
behind the scenes:adj.幕后的; experiential:adj.经验的;经验上的;根据经验的; woefully:adv.悲伤地;不幸地;使人痛苦地;
I'll put that in perspective for a moment. 我来解释一下。
I could leave this theater right now, 我现在可以离开这个舞台。
I could do some graffiti , get in a fight, fall in love . 我可以去涂鸦,可以打架, 可以坠入爱河。
graffiti:n.墙上乱写乱画的东西(graffito的复数形式); fall in love:v.坠入情网;坠入爱河;相爱;爱上;
I might actually do all of those things after this, but the point is that all of that would have consequence . 我可能真的会在这演出之后 做这些事, 但是,这些事会有后果。
consequence:n.结果;重要性;推论;
It would ripple through reality -- all of you could interact with that at the same time . 这些事会改变我的现实, 所有人可以在同一时间做出反应。
ripple:n.波纹;涟漪;[物]涟波;vi.起潺潺声;vt.在…上形成波痕; interact:v.互相影响;互相作用;n.幕间剧;幕间休息; at the same time:同时;另一方面;与此同时;
It would be persistent . 它的影响是持续性的。
persistent:adj.固执的,坚持的;持久稳固的;
And those are very important qualities to what makes the real world real. 这也就是真实世界真实的重要原因。
Now, behind the scenes in games, we've had a limit for a very long time. 但在游戏幕后, 我们很长一段时间都被限制了。
And the limit is, behind the visuals , the actual information being exchanged between players or entities in a single game world has been deeply bounded 在视觉效果背后, 在单个游戏世界中 玩家之间或物体之间交换的实际信息 已经被一个事实所深深束缚,
visuals:n.图形部分;外观改装;可视教具(visual的复数); entities:n.实体;存在(entity的复数形式);字符实体;
by the fact that games mostly take place on a single server or a single machine. 即游戏大多发生在一台服务器 或一台机器上。
take place:发生;举行;
Even The World of Warcraft is actually thousands of smaller worlds. 就算是“魔兽世界”, 也是几千个小世界.
Warcraft:n.军舰;战略;军用飞机;
When you hear about concerts in Fortnite, you're actually hearing about thousands of small concerts. 当你在“堡垒之夜”中 看到一场演唱会时 你其实看到的 是几千场小演唱会。
You know, individual , as was said earlier today, campfires or couches . 这些全都是独自存在的, 无论是游戏里面的篝火 还是沙发。
individual:n.个人;有个性的人;adj.单独的;个别的; campfires:n.营火;营火会; couches:n.睡椅,长沙发;床;卧榻;vi.蹲伏,埋伏;躺着;vt.使躺下;表达;弯下;
There isn't really this possibility to bring it all together. 我们没有什么机会 将这些世界联合到一起。
Let's take a moment to just really understand what that means. 让我们来想一想这是什么意思。
When you look at a game, you might see this, beautiful visuals, all of these things happening in front of you. 当你在玩一个游戏时, 你可能会看到美好的视觉效果, 许多事在你眼前发生。
But behind the scenes in an online game, this is what it looks like. 但是每一个网上游戏的幕后, 看起来却是这样的。
To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful entities or objects. 一个计算机科学家 看到的仅仅是一点点信息 交换于一小撮对象或物品。
meaningful:adj.严肃的;重要的;重大的;意味深长的;
You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite world." 你可能在想, “我正在探索一个无限的世界。”
Well it's more that you've played on a treadmill . 其实,你仅仅只是在跑步机上前进。
treadmill:n.踏车,跑步机;单调的工作;
As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish , and the parts of it in front of you to appear. 在你探索游戏世界时, 我们很聪明地使 你没到的地方消失不见, 这是一个不错的小伎俩,
cleverly:adv.聪明地; vanish:v.消失;突然不见;成为零;n.弱化音;
A good trick, but not the basis for the revolution that I promised you in the beginning of this talk. 但是这并不能成为 我刚刚向你们保证的游戏革命的基石。
revolution:n.革命;旋转;运行;循环;
But the reality is, for those of you that are passionate gamers and might be excited about this, and for those of you that are afraid and may not be, all of that is about to change. 但我想告诉你们之中 和感到些许恐惧或毫无反应的人们 和感到些许恐惧或毫无反应的人们 因为,我们的科技终于到位了,
passionate:adj.热情的;热烈的,激昂的;易怒的; gamers:n.游戏玩家;
Because finally , the technology is in place to go well beyond the limits that we've previously seen. 因为,我们的科技终于到位了, 可以跨域我们之前遇到的瓶颈。
finally:adv.终于;最终;(用于列举)最后;彻底地; technology:n.技术;工艺;术语; previously:adv.先前;以前;
I've dedicated my career to this, there are many others working on the problem -- 这是我的事业, 还有其他的战友一起在研究这个,
dedicated:adj.献身的; v.把…奉献给; (dedicate的过去分词和过去式) career:n.职业;事业;生涯;经历;
I'd hardly take credit for it myself, but we're at the point now where we can finally do this impossible hard thing of weaving together thousands of disparate machines into single simulations that are convenient enough to not be one-offs , but to be buildable by anybody. 我不想把这个功劳加在我身上, 但我们现在终于可以开始 做以前我们认为完全不可能的事: 把几千台独立的机器联合到 一个模拟世界中, 这个模拟世界并非 由一方所控制并建造的, 而是可以被所有人建造的。
weaving:v.编,织;(用…)编成;编造(故事等);(weave的现在分词) disparate:adj.不同的;不相干的;全异的;n.无法相比的东西; simulations:n.[计]模拟(simulation的复数);[计]仿真; convenient:adj.实用的;便利的;方便的; one-offs:n.一次性事物;adj.一次性的; buildable:可建造的;
And to be at the point where we can start to experience those things that we can't yet fathom . 在那时, 我们会开始经历 我们现在还无法想象的事。
fathom:vt.看穿;彻底了解;测量…的深度;n.英寻(测量水深的长度单位);
Let's just take a moment to visualize that. 让我们想一下。
visualize:vt.形象,形象化;想像,设想;vi.显现;
I'm talking about not individual little simulations but a massive possibility of huge networks of interaction . 我说的并不是 单独的模拟世界, 而是一个巨大的交互网络。
interaction:n.[计]交互,相互作用;相互交流;干扰;
Massive global events that can happen inside that. 全球性事件可以发生在其中。
global:adj.全球的;总体的;球形的;
Things that even in the real world become challenging to produce at that kind of scale. 这些事在现实世界中的 可做不到那么大的规模。
And I know some of you are gamers, so I'm going to show you some footage of some things that I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to do, from some of our partners. 我知道台下的一些人 是游戏玩家, 我想给你们看一些视频, 这些来自于我们的合作伙伴
footage:n.英尺长度;连续镜头;以尺计算长度;
TED and me had a back-and-forth on this. 我和TED讨论了很久了。
back-and-forth:前后移动的,来回的,反复的;
These are a few things that not many people have seen before, some new experiences powered by this type of technology. 这些很多人都没见过, 它们是由当今科技支持的新游戏体验。
I'll just [take] a moment to show you some of this stuff . 我现在给你们看看。
stuff:n.东西:物品:基本特征:v.填满:装满:标本:
This is a single game world with thousands of simultaneous people participating in a conflict . 其中, 数千人同时参与了一场冲突。 其中, 数千人同时参与了一场冲突。
simultaneous:adj.同时的;联立的;同时发生的;n.同时译员; participating:v.参加;参与(participate的现在分词) conflict:n.冲突;矛盾;争执;抵触;v.抵触;
It also has its own ecosystem , its own sense of predator and prey . 这个世界有独自的生态系统, 自主分类出的捕食者和猎物。
ecosystem:n.生态系统; predator:n.[动]捕食者;[动]食肉动物;掠夺者; prey:n.猎物;受害者;受骗者;v.折磨;掠夺;捕食(on,upon);损害(on,upon);
Every single object you see here is simulated in some way. 你在这里看到的每一个物体 都是以某种方式模拟出来的。
simulated:adj.假装的; v.假装; (simulate的过去式和过去分词)
This is a game being built by one of the biggest companies in the world, 这个游戏是世界上最大的公司之一,
NetEase, a huge Chinese company. 网易,一个中国公司。
And they've made an assistant creative simulation where groups of players can cocreate together, across multiple devices , in a world that doesn't vanish when you're done. 他们创建了一个创造性辅助模拟世界, 很多玩家组 这个世界不会在你创立完后消失。 这个世界不会在你创立完后消失。
creative:adj.创造性的; cocreate:德商创科软件; multiple:adj.数量多的;多种多样的;n.倍数; devices:n.[机][计]设备;[机]装置;[电子]器件(device的复数);
It's a place to tell stories and have adventures. 在这个世界中,人们可以讲故事, 可以畅游冒险。
Even the weather is simulated. 游戏中的天气也是模拟的。
And that's kind of awesome . 这太棒了。
awesome:adj.令人敬畏的;使人畏惧的;可怕的;极好的;
And this is my personal favorite. 这是我最喜欢的。
personal:adj.个人的;身体的;亲自的;n.人事消息栏;人称代名词;
This is a group of people, pioneers in Berlin, a group called Klang Games, and they're completely insane , and they'll love me for saying that. 一群在柏林的游戏玩家, 他们叫做Klang Games 他们特别疯狂, 他们也喜欢我这样称呼他们。
insane:adj.疯狂的;精神病的;极愚蠢的;
And they found a way to model, basically , an entire planet. 他们找到了一种方式 来建模整个星球。
basically:adv.主要地,基本上;
They're going to have a simulation with millions of non-player characters and players engaging . 他们将要建造一个模拟世界, 有百万个非玩家和玩家角色 共同创造。
non-player:非球员; engaging:adj.有趣的; v.吸引住(注意力、兴趣); (engage的现在分词)
They actually grabbed Lawrence Lessig to help understand the political ramifications of the world they're creating. 他们还邀请了劳伦斯·莱斯格 来帮助他们认清
grabbed:v.抓住;攫取;抓住,夺得;(grab的过去分词和过去式) ramifications:n.(众多复杂而又难以预料的)结果,后果;(ramification的复数)
This is the sort of astounding set of experiences, well beyond what we might have imagined, that are now going to be possible. 这是一种令人震惊的经历, 远超过我们所想象的, 而如今成为了现实。
astounding:adj.令人震惊的;使大吃一惊的;v.使震惊;使大惊;(astound的现在分词)
And that's just the first step in this technology. 这仅仅是这种科技的第一步。
So if we step beyond that, what happens? 所以若我们跨过那一步,什么会发生？
Well, computer science tends to be all exponential , once we crack the really hard problems. 计算机科学倾向于指数增长, 在我们解决很难的问题后。
computer science:n.计算机科学; exponential:adj.指数的;n.指数; crack:v.使破裂;打开;变声;n.裂缝;声变;噼啪声;adj.最好的;高明的;
And I'm pretty sure that very soon, we're going to be in a place where we can make this type of computational power look like nothing. 我确定在很近的未来, 我们会到达一个境界 那时,这种计算机技术根本不算什么。
computational:adj.计算的;
And when that happens, the opportunities ... 那时,我们的机会穷乎其穷。
It's worth taking a moment to try to imagine what I'm talking about here. 花点时间想想我说的是什么。
Hundreds of thousands or millions of people being able to coinhabit the same space. 成百上千,百万的人 可以栖息在在同一空间。
The last time any of us as a species had the opportunity to build or do something together with that may people was in antiquity . 上一次我们人类 有机会大规模共同塑造
species:n.[生物]物种;种类; antiquity:n.古代;古老;文物;古迹;
And the circumstances were less than optimal , shall we say. 而当时的环境可没如今那么完美。
circumstances:n.情况;环境;情形;(circumstance的复数) optimal:adj.最佳的;最理想的;
Mostly conflicts or building pyramids. 人类当时不是战火纷飞, 就是在造金字塔。
conflicts:n.冲突; v.抵触;
Not necessarily the best thing for us to be spending our time doing. 并不是我们应该花时间做的。
necessarily:adv.必要地;必定地,必然地;
But if you bring together that many people, the kind of shared experience that can create ... 但如果现在你可以组织起这么多人 它创造出的共同体验, 无法想象。
I think it exercises a social muscle in us that we've lost and forgotten. 我认为,它可以活动 我们体内被忽略了很久的社会肌肉。
muscle:n.肌肉;力量;v.加强;使劲搬动;使劲挤出;
Going even beyond that, 在这之上,
I want to take a moment to think about what it means for relationships, for identity . 我想谈谈 如果我们能给彼此世界,给彼此经验,
identity:n.身份;同一性,一致;特性;恒等式;
If we can give each other worlds, experiences at scale where we can spend a meaningful amount of our time, we can change what it means to be an individual. 如果我们能给彼此世界,给彼此经验, 我们花大量的有意义时间, 我们就能改变个体的意义。
We can go beyond a single identity to a diverse set of personal identities . 我们可以超越单一的身份, 去拥抱更多元的个人身份。
diverse:adj.不同的;多种多样的;变化多的; identities:n.身份;本身;本体;特征;同一性;相同;(identity的复数)
The gender , the race, the personality traits you were born with might be something you want to experiment differently with. 性别,种族,这些与生俱来的特征 可以变成你可以 尝试变化的。
gender:n.性别; personality:n.性格;个性;人格;魅力;气质;名人;特色; traits:n.特性,特质,性格(trait的复数);
You might be someone that wants to be more than one person. 你可以成为有多重身份的人。
We all are, inside, multiple people. 在我们的内心深处, 我们都是几个不同的人。
We rarely get the opportunity to flex that. 而我们以前没有机会展示这些。
rarely:adv.很少地;难得;罕有地; flex:vt.折曲;使收缩;vi.弯曲;收缩;n.屈曲;电线;松紧带;adj.弹性工作制的;
It's also about empathy . 这也有关同理心。
empathy:n.神入;移情作用;执着;
I have a grandmother who I have literally nothing in common with . 我的祖母 我和她没有任何共同点。
literally:adv.按字面:字面上:确实地: in common with:与…一样;
I love her to bits, but every story she has begins in 1940 and ends sometime in 1950. 我爱她至深, 但她讲的每一个故事 都始于1940年代,终于1950年代
And every story I have is like 50 years later. 而我的故事都发生在五十年后。
But if we could coinhabit, co-experience things together, that undiminished by physical frailty or by lack of context , create opportunities together, that changes things, that bonds people in different ways. 但如果我们可以共同栖息 共同体验, 而不被物理上的隔阂或 背景环境的缺失所阻碍, 我们可以共同创造机会, 这会改变很多事, 它以不同的方式把人们联系在一起。
co-experience:共体验;共同经验;用户体验概念; undiminished:adj.未衰减的;未缩减的;没削弱的;没有降低的; frailty:n.虚弱;弱点;意志薄弱; context:n.环境;上下文;来龙去脉;
I'm struck by how social media has amplified our many differences, and really made us more who we are in the presence of other people. 我深刻地感受到社交媒体 放大了人与人之间的不同, 并可以让我们在他人面前 展示真实的自己。
amplified:v.放大;详述(amplify的过去分词);adj.放大的;扩充的; in the presence of:在…面前;有某人在场;
I think games could really start to create an opportunity for us to empathize again. 而我相信游戏也会开始创建 这样的机会,让我们可以拥有同理心。
empathize:vt.移情;神会;
To have shared adversity , shared opportunity. 同甘共苦,分享机会。
adversity:n.逆境;不幸;灾难;灾祸;
I mean, statistically , at this moment in time, there are people who are on the opposite sides of a conflict, who have been matchmade together into a game and don't even know it. 数据上来看,在这个时代 身处对立战国的人们 可能在一个网络游戏中 匹配为战友 而他们对此一无所知。
statistically:adv.统计地;统计学上;
That's an incredible opportunity to change the way we look at things. 这是一个非常棒的机会, 让我们改变看待事物的方法。
incredible:adj.难以置信的,惊人的;
Finally, for those of you who perhaps are more cynical about all of this, who maybe don't think that virtual worlds and games are your cup of tea. 现在,你们之中 对这感到有些怀疑的人, 你们可能觉得虚拟世界 或者游戏并非是你们所喜欢的。
cynical:adj.愤世嫉俗的;冷嘲的; virtual:adj.[计]虚拟的;实质上的,事实上的(但未在名义上或正式获承认);
There's a reality you have to accept, and that is that the economic impact of what I'm talking about will be profound . 但你们得接受一个事实, 就是它的经济效益会是深远的。
economic:adj.经济的,经济上的;经济学的; profound:adj.深厚的;意义深远的;渊博的;
Right now, thousands of people have full-time jobs in gaming. 现在,上千人将游戏 作为他们的全职工作,
full-time:adj.专职的;全日制的;全部时间的;
Soon, it will be millions of people. 这个数字马上会上升至百万人。
Wherever there's a mobile phone , there will be a job. 哪里有手机,哪里就有工作。
mobile phone:移动电话
An opportunity for something that is creative and rich and gives you an income, no matter what country you're in, no matter what skills or opportunities you might think you have. 这个机会充满着创新的机会, 无论你身处何方,都可以有工资拿 无论你觉得自己的资历和机会好不好。
no matter what:不管什么…;
Probably the first dollar most kids born today make might be in a game. 而现今出生的孩子们 赚的的一块钱 很有可能就是在游戏中。
That will be the new paper route , that will be the new opportunity for an income at the earliest time in your life. 这将成为一个新的收入渠道, 新的薪资来源 在你非常年轻的时候。
route:n.路线;路途;固定线路;途径;v.按某路线发送;
So I kind of want to end with almost a plea , really, more than thoughts. 所以我想以一个恳求, 而非一个想法 来结束我的演讲。
plea:n.请求;恳求;答辩;借口;
A sense of, I think, how we need to face this new opportunity a little differently to some we have in the past. 我们应该如何面对这个新的机会, 我觉得应该和过去的我们有些不同。
It's so hypocritical for yet another technologist to stand up on stage and say, "The future will be great, technology will fix it." 台上站着个科技人员 告诉大家 “未来是美好的,因为科技可以改变一切” 这好像有一点虚伪。
hypocritical:adj.虚伪的;伪善的; technologist:n.技术专家;工艺学家;
And the reality is, this is going to have downsides . 事实是,这个机会当然会有缺点,
downsides:下降趋势;消极面,缺点(downside的复数);
But those downsides will only be amplified if we approach , once again, with cynicism and derision , the opportunities that this presents. 但是这些缺点会被放大 若我们以犬儒主义和 嘲笑的态度来面对 它所带来的机会。
approach:n.方法;路径;v.接近;建议;着手处理; cynicism:n.玩世不恭,愤世嫉俗;犬儒主义;冷嘲热讽; derision:n.嘲笑;嘲笑的对象;
The worst thing that we could possibly do is let the same four or five companies end up dominating yet another adjacent space. 我们可以做到最糟糕的就是 让同样的四五个大公司 再次垄断了一个产业空间。
dominating:adj.个性强势的; v.支配; (dominate的现在分词) adjacent:adj.邻近的,毗连的;
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Because they're not just going to define how and who makes money from this. 因为他们不只会定义 如何以及谁能从中赚钱。
define:v.定义;使明确;规定;
The reality is, we're now talking about defining how we think, what the rules are around identity and collaboration , the rules of the world we live in. 事实是,我们现在谈论的 将会主导我们的思维, 影响我们对于身份和合作 定下的条规, 改变这个世界的秩序。
defining:v.解释(词语)的含义;给(词语)下定义;阐明;界定;(define的现在分词) collaboration:n.合作;勾结;通敌;
This has got to be something we all own, we all cocreate. 这些一定要成为所有人共同拥有的, 共同创造的。
So, my final plea is really to those engineers, those scientists, those artists in the audience today. 所以我最终的请求 面向观众中所有的工程师 所有的科学家,所有的艺术家。
Maybe some of you dreamed of working on space travel. 也许你们畅想过太空之旅。
The reality is, there are worlds you can build right here, right now, that can transform people's lives. 但事实是,在这里,在这一时刻 就有很多世界等待着你们的创造, 它们会永远地改变人们的生活。
transform:v.使改变;使改观;使转换;n.[数]变换式;[化]反式;
There are still huge technological frontiers that need to be overcome here, akin to those we faced when building the early internet. 仍有巨大的技术前沿 需要我们去攻克掌握, 就像早期建立互联网的时候一样。
overcome:vt.克服;胜过;vi.克服;得胜;
All the technology behind virtual worlds is different. 建立虚拟世界的科技 是非常独特的。
So, my plea to you is this. 我的恳求就是,
Let's engage , let's all engage , let's actually try to make this something that we shape in a positive way, rather than once again have be done to us. 让我们都参与进来,参与进来！ 让我们把它变成一件 我们可以积极创造的事, 而不是再次变得被动。
engage:v.吸引,占用;使参加;雇佣;使订婚;预定; positive:adj.积极的;[数]正的,[医][化学]阳性的;确定的;n.正数;[摄]正片;
Thank you. 谢谢。
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