So, enough scientists in other disciplines are really asking people to help, and they're doing a good job of it. 足够多的科学家在其它领域正寻求大家帮忙，而且大伙也干的不错。 For instance, there's eBird, where amateur birdwatchers
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
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
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
Third trend: robots. Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from "The Jetsons" in our house. 第三个趋势：机器人。我们这年龄的人从年轻一直到现在还在期待，家里会有“杰森一家”里的罗茜和罗伯特。 And all
If you look at the federal budget, this is what it looks like. The orange slice is what's discretionary. Everything else is mandated. 如果你们去看看联邦政府的预算，就是这个样子的。橙色部分是自由资金，别的都是强制性的。 It makes no difference
Now, right behind the financial crisis there's a second and bigger wave that we need to talk about. 现在，在金融危机背后的是第二波更大的浪潮，这是我们需要讲的。 That wave is much larger, much more powerful, and that's of course th
There's a great big elephant in the room called the economy. So let's start talking about that. 经济是个重要，而又常被避开的话题。让我们来聊下它。 I wanted to give you a current picture of the economy. That's what I have behi
The government, meanwhile, has been acting like Santa Claus. We all love Santa Claus, right? 与此同时，政府扮的像圣诞老人一样，我们都爱圣诞老人不是吗？ But the problem with Santa Clause is, if you look at the mandatory spending o
