TED演讲:疯狂的科学家用苹果做出了耳朵(5)

So listen, all of the work I've shown you, 听我说,我向你们展示的所有工作, the stuff that I've built that's all around me on this stage 我身边所有这些自己造出来的东西, and the other projects my lab is involved in 还有我的实验室参与的其他项目, are all a direct result of me playing with your garbage. 都是我玩转你们丢的垃圾的直接结果。 Play — play is a key ...

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TED演讲:疯狂的科学家用苹果做出了耳朵(4)

What I'm really curious about is if one day, 我真正好奇的是会不会有一天, it will be possible to repair, rebuild and augment our own bodies with stuff we make in the kitchen. 人们有可能修复、改造、强化我们自己的身体,用到的只是我们厨房里的材料。 Speaking of kitchens, here's some asparagus. 好,说到厨房,这是一些芦笋。 They're tasty, and they make your pee smell f...

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TED演讲:疯狂的科学家用苹果做出了耳朵(3)

I actually brought this up with my wife. 我也跟我的老婆提起过这件事, She's a musical instrument maker, and she does a lot of wood carving for a living. 她是一位乐器制造家,也把制作木雕当成一种职业。 So I asked her, "Could you, like, literally carve some ears out of an apple for us?" 所以我问她,“你可以为我们用苹果雕刻出一些耳朵吗?” And she did. So I took her ...

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TED演讲:疯狂的科学家用苹果做出了耳朵(2)

So one day I was hacking something, I was taking it apart, and I had this sudden idea: 有一天我正在拆解东西,我突然产生了这样的想法: Could I treat biology like hardware? 我能不能把生物体当作硬件? Could I dismantle a biological system, mix and match the parts 我能不能拆分一个生物系统,混合并配对拆分出来的部分, and then put it back together in some new and creative way? 然...

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TED演讲:疯狂的科学家用苹果做出了耳朵(1)

I've got a confession. I love looking through people's garbage. 坦白地说,我喜欢翻看别人丢弃的垃圾。 Now, it's not some creepy thing. 这可不是什么怪癖。 I'm usually just looking for old electronics, stuff I can take to my workshop and hack. 我通常只是寻找旧的电子器件,那些我可以带回工作室进行改装的东西。 I do have a fetish for CD-ROM drives. 我尤其痴迷于光盘...

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我在苹果公司学到的八项管理经验

萨钦.阿格沃尔(Sachin Agarwal)目前是Posterous的CEO,他曾在苹果公司工作六年,并从中学到不少珍贵管理经验。 苹果是一家集合了狂热粉丝与仇恨者于一身的公司。但毋庸置疑,它获得了巨大的成功,而且一路旌旗高举。 如我们之前所说,它的成功,部分是因为这家公司确实只是在庞大的起步阶段–以工程师为绝对核心,强调最低限度的官僚作风,并且关心员工的企业文化。 萨钦.阿格沃尔任职工程师期间,学...

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