【Ted】每日Ted

3/26 Charlie Jane Anders:Go ahead,dream about the futuer.

  1. Our world is changing so fast, and there’s a kind of accelerating (加速) feedback (n. 反馈;回复;成果,资料) loop where technological (科技的,工艺的) change and social change feed on each other.
    我们的世界瞬息万变,有一种加速反馈循环,技术变革和社会变革相互促进。
  2. When I was a kid in the 1980s, we knew what the future was going to look like.
  3. But now, nobody knows what the world is going to look like even in just a couple years, and there are so many scary apparitions lurking (n. (新用户的)“潜伏”(在USENET上作为旁观者,不参加讨论)) on the horizon.
    但现在,没有人知道世界会是什么样子,即使在短短几年内,有这么多的可怕的幽灵潜伏在地平线上。
  4. It’s a way of vaccinating yourself against the worst possible case of future shock.
    这是一种为自己接种疫苗,防止未来最坏情况休克的方法。
  5. what’s differnce between predict and imagine.I think a lot about what I know of human nature and the way that people have responded in the past to huge changes and upheavals and transformations.
    我想了很多关于我对人性的了解,以及人们过去对巨大变化、动荡和转变的反应方式。
    upheavals: a violent or sudden change or disruption to something
  6. I try to picture a green city with vertical (1. adj. 垂直的,直立的;头顶的,顶点的 2. n. 垂直线,垂直面) farms (1. n. 农场;庄园(farm的复数形式) 2. v. 耕种,种植,养殖(farm的第三人称单数形式)) and structures that are partially (部分) grown rather than built and walkways instead of streets, because nobody gets around by car anymore – a city that lives and breathes.
    我试图想象一个绿色城市,垂直农场和结构是部分种植,而不是建造和走道,而不是街道,因为没有人再开车四处走动——一个生活和呼吸的城市。
  7. And, you know, I kind of start by daydreaming the wildest stuff that I can possibly come up with, and then I go back into research mode, and I try to make it as plausible (adj. 貌似真实的,貌似有理的;貌似可信的,花言巧语的) as I can by looking at a mixture (n. 混合;混合物;混合剂) of urban (adj. 城市的;住在都市的) futurism (n. 未来派;未来主义), design porn and technological (科技的,工艺的) speculation (沉思, 推测, 投机).
    你知道,我开始做白日梦,我可能想出的最疯狂的东西,然后我回到研究模式,我试图通过观察城市未来主义、设计色情和技术投机的混合体,尽可能使之变得合理。
  8. 【【Ted】每日Ted】I can’t possibly imagine what might go wrong in that scenario.
    我无法想象在这种情况下会出什么问题。

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