Talk very briefly about innovation cycles, things that grow, have a lot of activity; they die out when they're replaced by something else. 简短地谈一下发明创造的周期，周期发展时会衍生许多活动，当这些活动被其他活动取代，此周期就灭亡了。 These things
The planet became an intense emitter of radio waves -- the total output from all TV and cell phones and radar transmissions. 地球开始发射出强烈的电磁波 - 其来源是所有的电视，手机和雷达信号传输。 And something else happened. Metallic
Four years ago here at TED, Ray Kurzweil and I started a new university called Singularity University. 四年前在TED，雷·库兹威尔和我创立了一所新的大学，叫做“Singularity University”。 And we teach our students all of these tech
On a still bigger scale, we see entire galaxies of stars. We see entire ecosystems where gas is being recycled. 在更大的范围里，我们看到恒星组成的星系。我们看到完整的生态系统，看到气体被回收利用。 And to the cosmologist, these galaxies are ju
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. 如果你随机挑选出10000个人，其中的9999个人会有如下共性：他们对商业的兴趣显而易见。 The odd one out is an
Whether or not you realize it, we are at the dawn of a technological arms race, 不论你们是否意识到，我们即将迎来一场科技军备竞赛， an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for i
So let's project this analogy going forward. We think about energy scarcity. 让我们把这个比喻应用到其他方面，让我们想一想能源短缺。 Ladies and gentlemen, we are on a planet that is bathed with 5,000 times more energy than we us
And so I began to think about that. And it turned out that this machine happens to be the most reliable machine that we've ever made. 我发觉到这部机器正是人类有史以来创造过的最可靠的机器。 It has not crashed; it's running unint
Not the bank's computer or Lockheed's computer, but the home computer was for games. 不是银行的电脑或洛克希德导弹与航天公司的电脑，家用电脑是用于游戏的。 For a whole decade it was for fun -- we didn't even know what it was for. 对于整整一代
Well, first of all, what's going to happen next? The first industry will be a high volume, a lot of players. 那么，首先，接下来会发生什么？第一产业将会数量巨大，参与者众多。 There's another one announced just last week. And it will
As we move forward, we'll see new technologies also, like the Internet of Things. 随着人类社会向前发展，我们也会见证很多新科技的诞生，比如物联网。 Every day we're connecting more and more of our lives to the Internet, which means th
I think what we'll do is we'll see a successful, very successful, private space flight industry. 我认为我们要做的会让我们看到成功的，非常成功的私人太空飞船行业。 Whether we're first or not really doesn't matter. The Russians actuall
Well, let's go back to this picture. There's one challenge symbolized at the top, but there's another challenge to science symbolized at the bottom. 好吧，让我们回到这张图片。在其上部有一个符号化了的科学挑战。而在其下部同样有一个符号化了的科学挑战。
We all worry about our privacy settings on Facebook, but the fact of the matter is, our openness can be used against us. 我们都为我们在Facebook上的隐私设置感到烦恼，但是问题的实际情况在于，我们的坦率可能会被用来伤害我们自己。 Terrorists are doing t
They were inspired by big progress. But look at the progress that's going on after that. 他们被巨大的进步所鼓舞。但看看那之后的进步。 There were a couple of examples here. The military fighters had a -- highest-performance
The Internet, the Web as we know it, the kind of Web -- the things we're all talking about -- is already less than 5,000 days old. 互联网，又称网络，我们所说的网络，其历史还不到5000天。 So all of the things that we've seen co
You remember the space race in the '60s was for national prestige, because we lost the first two milestones. 你们还记得60年代的太空竞赛是为了国家的声誉，因为我们丢失了最初的两个里程碑。 We didn't lose them technically. The fact that we h
Now, the second thing that I want to talk about was this idea of restructuring, that what the Web is doing is restructuring. 第二，我想谈谈重建的概念，网络正在重建。 And I have to warn you, that what we'll talk about is
And young people are also telling me that they're worried about violence. 年轻人还告诉我，他们担忧暴力。 At home, online, in school, in their communities. And again, they're right. 在家中、网上、学校、他们的社区。这一点上，他们又对了。 A youn
Or you can find it in arts projects. So this is the txtBomber. 另外也有在艺术方面的应用。这是一台叫txtBomber的机器。 So you put a message into this device and then you roll it on the wall, 将信息输进这台机器，然后将其滚过墙面， and it basica
