So to understand what a radical change this is going to bring, let's look at one industry, financial services. 所以为了理解即将到来的突破性的改变，让我们看一个行业：金融服务业。 Recognize this? Rube Goldberg machine. 你们能否认出这是什么？小题大做的
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait 每一个人都拥有一个最强大，危险并具有颠覆性的特性 that natural selection has ever devised. 这一特性是自然选择前所未有的设计 It's a piece of neural audio technology for r
The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will remember. 第二个故事，和那些我相信你们大多数人都见过或者记得相关事情。 Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, 非洲的国家常常遭受干旱和洪涝
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
For example, most other Germanic language speakers 例如，说日尔曼语系的人 feel completely comfortable talking about rain tomorrow by saying, "Morgen regnet es," 会很自然的用以下的话表达明天下雨：“Morgen regnet es” quite literall
We have genius in our young people. I see it every day. 我们的年轻人拥有天赋。我每天都看得到。 It's what makes me wake up in the morning and feel ready to go. 这就是每天早上叫醒我并且让我整装待发的东西。 We have to unleash the genius of our
So what comes next? The people. 那么接下来呢？我们的百姓。 How do we get people to own this? 我们如何才能让人们去接受这个想法？ How do we get people to believe that it's possible to build a society without fossil fuels? 我们如何才能让人们相
So, if you have a ham butt problem, and you're thinking about the ham butt problem, 所以如果你知道火腿屁股这事儿，而你又正在考虑这个问题， the conclusion that it leads you to is inexorable and counterintuitive: paper is the ene
We want to accelerate adoption of sustainable building and development practices. 我们想要提高高承受性建筑及其应用的采纳度。 We want more innovation. 我们想拥抱更多革新。 But a lot of times, whole categories of innovation -- 但是很多情况
Secondly: a lot of writers talk about Uber and Airbnb and TaskRabbit and Lyft and so on as part of the sharing economy. 第二点：很多写手谈论起Uber，Airbnb，TaskRabbit，Lyft等企业时，把他们当做了共享经济的一部分。 This is a very powerf
So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, 所以在解释孩子们如何学习语言时候，有一个问题 a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, 同样也是教成人学外语语法时的一个问题 and a problem in
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, 人类学家Alan Fiske给出了一个关于影响力的分类法 in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle 其
I did notice the news about those parts of London becoming ghost quarters, 我注意到了那些关于伦敦市区空洞化的新闻， where the global super-rich turn fishy money into empty apartments 在那儿，世界级富豪把现钱变为空洞公寓， and price lifelon
I ask you, what happened to translation? 那我问你，翻译还需要吗？ If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there was lots of translation then. 如果你想想伊斯兰的黄金时代，当时有很多翻译。 They translated from Latin and Greek into Ar
So we have gone through almost 30 characters. 我们已经学了差不多三十个汉字， By using this method, the first eight radicals will allow you to build 32. 通过这个方法，这八个基本字可以衍生出三十二个汉字， The next group of eight characters wi
Open your mouth as wide as possible until it's square. You get a mouth. 把你的嘴张得越大越好，直到变成正方形。这就是一个“口”字。 This is a person going for a walk. Person. 这是一个人正在散步。“人”字。 If the shape of the fire is a person wi
I want to show you some brave souls who've had the courage to embrace this advanced potty training approach. 我想要给你们展示这些英勇地灵魂，就是那些有勇气去拥抱这种先进如厕技术地人们。 So those folks in New Mexico -- why did they do it?
There are lots and lots of tests of English. 各种各样的英语测试。 And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. 每年成千上万的学生参加这样的考试。 Now you might think, you and me, "Those fees aren't bad, th
Now, where do we go from there? 现在，我们该走向何方？ I believe that the way forward is to learn to manage success. 我相信前进的道路就是学会管理成功。 Very often, when people succeed or countries succeed, they forget what made
And so some time around 200,000 years ago, our species confronted this crisis. 大约二十万年前，人类遇到了这一困境 And we really had only two options for dealing with the conflicts that visual theft would bring. 我们只有两种
