Come on. "Why? 'Cause I need it"? Best scene ever, right? Come on! 拜托，“为什么？因为我想亲你？”最妙的场景，对吗？ 拜托！ So you think of "Jaws" -- so that's the kind of stuff that, like, you know -- the investment of charact
And if I would also look at India, you have another type of inequity, actually, in India. 我们再来看看印度，我们会看到另一种不平等。 The geographical, macro-geographical difference is not so big. 从地理的角度上来看，差距不大。 Uttar Pra
And this is where my story starts. When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, 我的故事从这里开始。当我还是个年轻的博士研究生的时候， my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, "Here's the thing, if you cann
"It can't be done" was shown to be wrong. “不可能”变成了可能。 I was taking a shower in a hotel room in Sydney the moment she died, 600 miles away, in Melbourne. 当她在600英里外的墨尔本逝世时，我正在悉尼的宾馆房间洗澡。 I looked through
Thank you very much. Like the speaker before me -- I am a TED virgin, I guess. I'm also the first time here, and... I don't know what to say! 非常感谢大家，和前面一位演讲人一样，我是...大概是TED处女。我也是第一次到这里，不知道该说什么。 I'm rea
And I will now, here, onstage, try to predict when that will happen -- 现在，我，将在这个台上， that Asia will regain its dominant position as the leading part of the world, as it used to be, over thousands of ye
We recently saw a case where some researchers made the H5N1 avian influenza virus more potent. 我们最近观察到一个案例，发现一些研究员将H5N1禽流感病毒变得更强效。 It already has a 70 percent mortality rate if you get it, but it's ha
I study the future of crime and terrorism, and frankly, I'm afraid. I'm afraid by what I see. 我研究的是犯罪和恐怖主义的未来。坦白地说，我感到害怕。我对我在研究中了解到的事情感到害怕。 I sincerely want to believe that technology can bring us the
Have you guys not seen that? It's huge! Anyway -- So there's this thing with mystery boxes that I started feeling compelled. 你们就没有发现吗？它太明显了！不管怎么说－－因此我的神秘盒子让我开始感觉，像是被迫的感觉。 Then there's the thing of mys
So how will criminals abuse this? Well, with synthetic biology you can do some pretty neat things. 那么罪犯将如何滥用这项技术呢？利用合成生物学，你能做一些相当优雅的事情。 For example, I predict that we will move away from a plant-based
Research shows that 19 out of 20 people who attempt suicide will fail. 研究显示，20个试图自杀的人中有19个会失败。 But the people who fail are 37 times more likely to succeed the second time. 但是失败的人有37倍的可能性第二次自杀成功。 This
And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by its name. 当时的人们，清楚地知道这是什么，他们能叫出它的名字。 They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "
In 1949 we saw the emergence of the modern China in a way which surprised the world. 在1949年，新中国的诞生使全世界都为之惊奇。 And what happened? What happens in the after independence? You can see that the health star
But perhaps that's not the case. Perhaps instead, it's the distortions brought to us of what's really going on. 但事实或许并不是这样，我们所接受的信息是被扭曲的。 Perhaps the tremendous progress we've made over the last centu
So let me go through those three things. First of all, we have all these things in our hands. 让我一一说明。第一，我们手上握着不少东西， We think they're all separate devices, but in fact, every screen in the world is loo
I am a writer. Writing books is my profession but it's more than that, of course. 我是个作家，写作不仅仅是我的职业， It is also my great lifelong love and fascination. And I don't expect that that's ever going to chan
My mother, my sister and I slept in the same bed. My mother was exhausted each night, 我、我妹妹和我母亲睡在同一张床上。每晚母亲都拖着疲惫的身体回家， but we told one another about our day and listened to the movements of my grandmo
It's not harmful; it has just repaired the muscle. Muscle is constantly being used -- constantly being damaged. 这种肿瘤是无害的，它只是修复了肌肉的损伤。肌肉不断地被使用-不断地受到损坏。 If every time we tore a muscle or every time we s
So that's what led me to Alzheimer's. I started reading about Alzheimer's and tried to familiarize myself with the research, 这件事激发了我对阿尔茨海默氏症的兴趣。我开始阅读相关的资料，并使自己的熟悉相关的研究。 and at the same time when I was
Underpinning much of this is technology, and of late, exponentially growing technologies. 而这一切的基础是科技。和近代指数式增长的科技。 My good friend Ray Kurzweil showed that any tool that becomes an information technolog
