How about the next question? This is asking about what the average age is, 那么下一个问题呢？这是问关于年龄的中位数， so the age at which half the population are younger and half the population are older. 也就是该地区大于和小于这个年龄的
And I stumbled, then, on a statistic that really came home to me. 结果我发现了一个震惊的数据。 It was a very interesting academic article in which I found that 67 percent of singles in America today who are living
In a pre-flight news conference in the summer of 1969 1969年夏天，在一次飞行前的新闻发布会上 Neil Armstrong said, "I think we're going to the moon because it is in the nature of the human being to face challenges. 尼尔·
I'm fascinated with the idea of what happens when you merge biology with technology, 我非常着迷于这点子，要是把科技和生物学融合在一起会发生什么， and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram biology, in the fu
I call myself a body architect. 我自称为一名人体建筑师。 I trained in classical ballet and have a background in architecture and fashion. 我学过古典芭蕾，也有建筑以及时尚的相关背景。 As a body architect, I fascinate with the human bod
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
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
(Video) Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden's death, have spiked. （视频）播音员：在本拉登被击毙后，恐怖威胁数量激增。 Famine in Somalia. Announcer Three: Police pepper spray. 索马里出现饥荒。警察使用胡椒喷雾。 Vicious cartels. Causti
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
Four years ago here at TED, Ray Kurzweil and I started a new university called Singularity University. 四年前在TED，雷·库兹威尔和我创立了一所新的大学，叫做“Singularity University”。 And we teach our students all of these tech
So let's project this analogy going forward. We think about energy scarcity. 让我们把这个比喻应用到其他方面，让我们想一想能源短缺。 Ladies and gentlemen, we are on a planet that is bathed with 5,000 times more energy than we us
But here, here is the biggest force for bringing about a world of abundance. 还有最能创造富足的世界的力量。我称之为“崛起的十亿人”。 I call it the rising billion. So the white lines here are population. We just passed the seven
Let me share and close with a story that really got me excited. There is a program that some of you might have heard of. 让我来分享一个故事作为结尾，这个故事让我非常兴奋。在座的有一些可能听说过这个项目。 It's a game called Foldit. It came ou
