TED演讲之伟大预言 马克·古德曼:展望未来犯罪(4)

Of course, it’s not just about stealing things. There are other avenues of technology that criminals can exploit. 当然,不单单是偷取东西。还有很多的科技途径可供罪犯开发。 Many of you will remember this super cute video from the last TED, but not all quadcopter swarms are so nice and cute. 你们中的很多人将会铭记这段在最近的TED里,播放的非常可爱的视频,然而不是所有的四轴...

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TED演讲之生存故事 谭黎:我的移民故事(4)

So I spoke out on youth unemployment and education and the neglect of the marginalized and disenfranchised. 因此我讲到了失业低龄化和教育问题,忽视边缘群体和剥夺政治权利。 And the more candidly I spoke, the more I was asked to speak. I met people from all walks of life, 我说的越坦率,越是有人邀请我演讲。遇见周围的人们, so many of them doing the thing they loved, living on th...

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TED演讲之神童 音乐神童黄凱珉小提琴表演技惊四座(1)

Hi, everyone. I’m Sirena. I’m 11 years old and from Connecticut. Well, I’m not really sure why I’m here. 大家好,我叫黄凱珉。我今年十一岁,来自康涅狄格州。嗯,我确实不知道我为什么会在这里。 I mean, what does this have to do with technology, entertainment and design? 我的意思是,我和这些到底有什么关系,科技,娱乐和设计? Well, I count my iPod, cellphon...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 彼得·迪曼蒂斯: 我们的未来将会是富足的(1)

(Video) Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden’s death, have spiked. (视频)播音员:在本拉登被击毙后,恐怖威胁数量激增。 Famine in Somalia. Announcer Three: Police pepper spray. 索马里出现饥荒。警察使用胡椒喷雾。 Vicious cartels. Caustic cruise lines. Societal decay. 凶恶的毒枭。破裂的游轮。社会风气败坏。 65 dead. Announcer Eight: Tsunami warning. Announcer Nine...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 艾莉森·高普尼克:婴儿在想什么?(7)

And there’s been a bunch of interesting studies recently that have shown this playing around is really a kind of experimental research program. 最近有很多有意思的研究显示了孩子的随意尝试,的确可以作为一个研究项目。 Here’s one from Cristine Legare’s lab. What Cristine did was use our Blicket Detectors. 这是克里斯汀·勒加雷的一项实验。克里斯汀使用了我们的玩具...

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TED演讲之生存故事 布琳·布朗:脆弱的力量(8)

And so then I went back into the research and spent the next couple of years really trying to understand what they, 然后我再度投入到了我的研究中,又花了几年时间, the whole-hearted, what choices they were making, and what we are doing with vulnerability. 真正试图去理解那些全身心投入生活的人,他们做了怎样的决定,他们是如何应对脆弱的。 Why do we struggle with it so much? Am I ...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 胡安·恩利克斯:令人吃惊的新科技(6)

But, of course, for most of us, we know how to grow teeth, and therefore we can take adult stem teeth, put them on a biodegradable mold, re-grow a tooth, and simply implant it. 当然,我们大多数人,我们知道怎样生长牙齿,所以我们能取出成人的干细胞,放进一个能生物降解的模具,再生长出牙齿,就能很方便地植入它。 And we can do it with other things. So, a Spanish woman who wa...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 艾莉森·高普尼克:婴儿在想什么?(1)

What is going on in this baby’s mind? If you’d asked people this 30 years ago, 这位宝宝在想什么?如果你在30年前问这个问题, most people, including psychologists, would have said that this baby was irrational, illogical, egocentric — 大多数人,包括心理学家,会告诉你这个小孩没有理性的,没逻辑,以自我为中心—— that he couldn’t take the perspe...

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TED演讲之生存故事 布琳·布朗:脆弱的力量(3)

And all you can think about is that opportunity for growth, right? 然后你满脑子都想着那一点成长的空间,不是么。 Well, apparently this is the way my work went as well, because, when you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak. 这也是我研究的一个方面,因为当你跟人们谈论爱情,他们告诉你的是一件让他们心碎的事。 When you ask people about belonging, they...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马克·古德曼:展望未来犯罪(2)

We consistently underestimate what criminals and terrorists can do. 我们一直低估了罪犯和恐怖分子能做到的事情。 Technology has made our world increasingly open, and for the most part, that’s great, but all of this openness may have unintended consequences. 科技已经让我们的世界越来越开放。当然,在大多数情况下,这是好事,但是这个开放性也可能会造成始料未及的后果...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 胡安·恩利克斯:令人吃惊的新科技(9)

And, of course, the future is looking back 200 years, because next week is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. 当然,未来是往回看200年,因为下周是达尔文诞辰200周年。 And it’s the 150th anniversary of the publication of “The Origin of Species.” And Darwin, of course, argued that evolution is a natural state. 也是“物种起源”出版150周年。达...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 凯文·凯利:谈未来5000天后的网络世界(8)

So, the last thing I want to talk about is this idea that we’re going to be codependent. 最后一个概念是,相互依存。 It’s always going to be there, and the closer it is, the better. If you allow Google to, it will tell you your search history. 它永远都在,越近越好。如果你授权谷歌,它可以给你,你的搜索记录。 And I found out by looking at it that I sear...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 胡安·恩利克斯:令人吃惊的新科技(8)

And as you bring these trends together, and as you think of what it means to take people who are profoundly deaf, 当你把这些趋势放到一起,你开始思考这些意味着什么? who can now begin to hear — I mean, remember the evolution of hearing aids, right? 让完全失聪的人再度听到声音,记得助听器的演变史吗? I mean, your grandparents had these great big cones, and th...

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TED演讲之超短集 世界的致命饮食(1)

With all the legitimate concerns about AIDS and avian flu — and we’ll hear about that from the brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today — 尽管所有对于艾滋病和禽流感的忧虑都是合理的—— 稍后我们将会听到优秀的Brilliant医生的演讲—— I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension — 我想要说的是另一种流行...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 艾莉森·高普尼克:婴儿在想什么?(5)

If this is true, if these babies are designed to learn — and this evolutionary story would say children are for learning, that’s what they’re for — 如果第二种解释是真的。那这些小宝宝天生就是学习的料,从进化论来看,他们天生就在学习,学习就是他们的本性—— we might expect that they would have really powerful learning mechanisms. 我们可以想象,他...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 伯特·鲁坦: 预见太空未来(3)

If you look at what happened — this little black line is as fast as man ever flew, 如果你看一看发生了什么 — 这条小黑线和人们曾经飞行的速度一样快, and the red line is top-of-the-line military fighters and the blue line is commercial air transport. 这条红线代表军队里速度最快的飞行员,蓝色代表商业飞机运输。 You notice here’s a big jump when I was...

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TED演讲之生存故事 吉尔伯特·泰勒的奇迹(1)

I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who has been diagnosed with a brain disorder, schizophrenia. 我之所以选择学习脑科,是因为我的一个弟弟被诊断大脑功能紊乱,用专业点的说法就是精神分裂症。 And as a sister and later, as a scientist, I wanted to understand, why is it that I can take my dreams, 作为姐姐,到后来是作为科学家,我十分想了解为什么我们会做...

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TED演讲之神童 一名12岁的手机应用开发者(1)

I’ve always had a fascination for computers and technology, and I made a few apps for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. 我一直都对计算机与科技很入迷,我研制了一些适用于Iphone, iTouch以及iPad的应用。 I’d like to share a couple with you today. 今天,我想与大家分享一些我研发出的应用。 My first app was a unique fortune teller called “Earth Fortune&...

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TED演讲之神奇奥秘 奥利弗·萨克斯:幻觉背后的心智(2)

Sometimes, she said, before the people come on, she may hallucinate pink and blue squares on the floor, which seem to go up to the ceiling. 她说,有时候在她看到人之前,她还能看到地板上粉色和蓝色的方块跑到天花板上。 I said, “Is this like a dream?” And she said, “No, it’s not like a dream. It’s like a movie.” She said, “It’...

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TED演讲之伟大预言 马丁·里斯:这是我们最后的世纪吗?(7)

As I should have shown this earlier, it will not be humans who witness the end point of the sun; it will be creatures as different from us as we are from bacteria. 我前面曾指出的一点是,人类将不能见证太阳的最后生命时刻,那时的生物与我们的差别将和我们现在与细菌间的差别一样悬殊。 When Einstein died in 1955, one striking tribute to his global status was this cartoon by H...

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