I'm here to talk about the next big thing, 我在这里要谈论另一件重要事情 because what we're finding out is that 因为我们发现 we have this capacity to report eyewitness accounts of what's going on in real time.
So I'm here to tell you a story of success from Africa. 在这里，我要跟大家分享一个在非洲的成功故事。 A year and a half ago, 一年半以前 four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, 在这里的5个人是Ushahidi的专职委员 whi
I'm here to talk about the next big thing, 我在这里要谈论另一件重要事情 because what we're finding out is that 因为我们发现 we have this capacity to report eyewitness accounts of what's going on in real time.
So I'm here to tell you a story of success from Africa. 在这里，我要跟大家分享一个在非洲的成功故事。 A year and a half ago, 一年半以前 four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, 在这里的5个人是Ushahidi的专职委员 whi
You can't do that while you're texting, and so ways are developing of doing it within this medium. 你没有办法在短信里这么做，所以在这个交流媒介里产生了各种转换话题的方法。 All spoken languages have what a linguist calls a new informatio
Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会，文字写作确实有它自己的优势。 When you write, because it's a conscious process, because you can look backwards, 当你写字的时候，因为这是一个有意识的过程，因为你可以回顾过去， you can
And so, for example, there is in texting a convention, which is LOL. 比如说，在短信里有这样一个习惯用语，就是LOL。 Now LOL, we generally think of as meaning "laughing out loud." 我们通常认为LOL的意思是“捧腹大笑”。 And of course, theoret
Take that person from 1993 -- not that long ago, 我们让1993年的那个人－这可不算太久远， this is "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" -- those people. 那还是“比尔和泰德历险记”（1989年美国电影）时代， Take those people and they read a very
Any spoken language that's used by real people has them. 任何口语都有这些词语。 If you happen to speak Japanese, think about that little word "ne" that you use at the end of a lot of sentences. 如果你会说日语的话，想想你在很多句
Now of course, as history has gone by, 当然，随着历史的演进， it's been natural for there to be a certain amount of bleed between speech and writing. 在言语对话和书面文字表达之间有些交集也是很自然的事情。 So, for example, in a distant era
We always hear that texting is a scourge. 人们总说短信的出现是一种灾难。 The idea is that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy, or at least writing ability, 这么说的原因是短信降低了人们的读写能力，或者至少是书面
Or you can go all the way back to 63 A.D. 或者大家可以直接跳转回公元63年。 And there's this poor man who doesn't like the way people are speaking Latin. 有个可怜人不喜欢人们说拉丁语的方式。 As it happens, he was writing about what ha
Once you have things in your pocket that can receive that message, 一旦你在口袋里有了能接受这个信息的装置， then you have the conditions that allow that we can write like we speak. 你就有条件来像说话一样打字了。 And that's where textin
Think about having surgery. 比如做手术。 Your doctor has to make sure that you are meaningfully and knowingly consenting to that medical procedure. 医生需要确认你了解并同意医疗程序。 This is not the type of consent like wit
As NYU legal scholar Helen Nissenbaum tells us, 正如纽约大学法学者Helen Nissenbaum告诉我们的， we have laws and policies and norms that protect all kinds of information that's private, 我们有着法律、政策以及准则，来保护各类私人信息， and i
Every new media technology raises privacy concerns. 每个新的媒体技术都会引起隐私问题。 In fact, in the US the very first major debates about privacy were in response to technologies that were relatively new at the tim
Jennifer did nothing wrong. All she did was share a nude photo with someone she thought that she could trust. Jennifer没做错什么。她不过将她的裸照分享给了她认为可以信任的人。 And yet our laws tell her that she committed a horrib
According to researchers at the University of New Hampshire 根据新罕布什尔大学的调查研究， seven percent of all child pornography possession arrests are teens, sexting consensually with other teens. 因儿童色情被捕的人群中，有百分之
These individual changes can really help us protect each other's privacy, but we need technology companies on board as well. 这些个人行为的改变可以帮助我们保护彼此的隐私，但我们同样需要科技公司的帮忙。 These companies have very little inc
People have been using media to talk about sex for a long time. 人们借助各种媒体来谈性，这已经有着很长的历史了。 Love letters, phone sex, racy Polaroids. 比如说情书、电话性爱以及裸照。 There's even a story of a girl who eloped with a man t
