So the way we acquired the games is very interesting and very unorthodox. 我们收购游戏的方式是十分有趣的,也是极不寻常的。 You see them here displayed alongside other examples of design, 你看在这里,它们陈列在其它设计样品的旁边, furniture and o
And we need to all gather together and say no to the tar sands. 我们必须团结一致向油砂说不。 And we can do that. There is a huge network all over the world fighting to stop this project. 我们可以做到这一点,遍布全球的庞大网络社群正致力于制止
This gadget you see right here was called the digital wall mapper, 你们在这里见到的这个是电子墙体测绘仪, and it produced the first three-dimensional map anybody has ever done of a cave, and it happened to be underwater
In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, 横跨北方森林的萨克其万省, home to some of our most famous rivers, 拥有一些著名湖泊, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, 形成令人叹为
These are ancient dice, made out of sheep's knuckles. Right? 这些是古老的骰子,由羊的关节骨制作而成 Before we had awesome game controllers, 在我们设计出游戏控制器前 we had sheep's knuckles. 我们人类已经拥有了羊关节制作的骰子 And these repre
And I just look at this, and I think, yes, 看到这些,我想,是的 we could take that so much further by allowing people to set targets 我们能可以把它带到更广阔的境界,以让人们去设定目标的方式 by setting calibrated targets, 以设置校准目标的方式 by usi
So, for example, in a distant era now, 比如说,在以前一个遥远的时代, it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing. 当一个人作演讲,说起话来像在写作一样,是很平常的事情。 So I mean the kind of speech that you see someon
What then of manned space exploration? 那载人的空间探索呢? The government recently announced plans to return to the moon by 2024. 美国政府最近宣布了2024重返月球的计划。 The successful conclusion of that mission will result in
If somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, 如果一个1973年的人看着1993年一个学生宿舍信息栏, the slang would have changed a little bit since the era of Love Story, 俚语等习惯用语会跟爱情故事时代有些不同,
So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. 所以首先是语音,然后文字作为一种技巧出现了。 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
We did a game called Superstruct 我们在“未来研究所” at The Institute For The Future. 做了一个叫"Superstruct"的游戏 And the premise was a supercomputer has calculated 这个游戏的假设是, that humans have only 23 years
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
Some of the highlights were things like "The Terminator," 其中有一些让我引以为荣的,像《终结者》 "Aladdin," the "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles." 《阿拉丁》还有《英雄神龟》(《忍者神龟》的英版名字) Because I was from
On the one hand, there's the wanting processes. 在一方面,有一个期望过程 This is a bit like ambition and drive, 有点像野心和驱动力-- I'm going to do that. I'm going to work hard. 我要去做那件事,我要努力 On the other hand
You need an AUV, an autonomous underwater vehicle. 你需要个AUV,一个自行式水下航行器。 It needs to be one smart puppy, able to navigate and make decisions on its own in an alien ocean. 它必须很聪明,能够自己导航在陌生的外星球的大洋里能够自己做决定
We've--No, first of all, New York Magazine always gets it. 我们,不,首先,纽约杂志总是最先得到。 I love them. So we are in the right quadrant. 我爱他们。所以我们是在右边的象限。 We are in the Highbrow, that's daring, that's
First place I'd like to take you is what many believe will be the world's deepest natural abyss. 我要带大家去的第一个地方是一个天然的深渊,许多人相信它将会被证明为世界最深之渊。 And I say believe because this process is still ongoin
Now, here you see-of course, as you go further on, 如图所示-当然,当你将视线拉远, these trucks become like a pixel. 这些卡车彷佛图中的小点。 Again, imagine those all back and forth there. 同样地,想象一下这片区域。 How large is that one po
I love video games. 我爱电子游戏 I'm also slightly in awe of them. 也对它抱有些许敬畏 I'm in awe of their power 我敬畏它们 in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. 想象力,技术,概念方面的力量 But
In that hut, we walked in, 我们走进那间小草屋 and her father and his four wives were sitting there, 她的父亲和四个妻子坐在那里 and her sisters who had just returned because 她的姐妹们也回来了, they had all fled when she had fled, 她