从烤面包机看懂人类思维
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 0:00 | There's not a single person in the world that knows how to make this toaster. | 世界上没有一个人知道如何制作这个烤面包机. |
| 0:04 | I know that might seem impossible, but it's true. | 我知道这似乎是不可能的,但这是真的。 |
| 0:07 | Let me explain. | 让我解释一下 |
| 0:09 | In 2011, British designer and writer Thomas Thwaites tried to build a toaster from scratch. | 2011年,英国设计师兼作家托马斯·特韦兹(Thomas Thwaites)试图从零开始建造烤面包机. |
| 0:14 | Nothing crazy, just a simple electric toaster equivalent to any cheap one you could find | 没什么疯狂的,只是一个简单的电动烤面包机 相当于任何便宜的,你可以找到的 |
| 0:19 | at a department store. | 在百货公司。 |
| 0:21 | He figured, especially with his design experience, how hard could it be? | 他认为,特别是他的设计经验,能有多难? |
| 0:25 | Turns out, for one person, it's impossible. | 结果,一个人,这是不可能的。 |
| 0:28 | When he bought and opened a toaster to base his own on, Thwaites was immediately distraught. | 当他购买并打开一个烤面包机以建立自己的基础时,Thwaites立刻心烦意乱. |
| 0:33 | Despite it being a cheap $6 toaster, there were 400 parts made of more than 100 different materials. | 尽管它是一个廉价的6元烤面包机,但有400个零件由100多种不同的材料制成. |
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| 1 | There's not a single person in the world that knows how to make this toaster. | 世界上没有一个人知道如何制作这个烤面包机. |
| 2 | I know that might seem impossible, but it's true. | 我知道这似乎是不可能的,但这是真的。 |
| 3 | Let me explain. | 让我解释一下 |
| 4 | In 2011, British designer and writer Thomas Thwaites tried to build a toaster from scratch. | 2011年,英国设计师兼作家托马斯·特韦兹(Thomas Thwaites)试图从零开始建造烤面包机. |
| 5 | Nothing crazy, just a simple electric toaster equivalent to any cheap one you could find | 没什么疯狂的,只是一个简单的电动烤面包机 相当于任何便宜的,你可以找到的 |
| 6 | at a department store. | 在百货公司。 |
| 7 | He figured, especially with his design experience, how hard could it be? | 他认为,特别是他的设计经验,能有多难? |
| 8 | Turns out, for one person, it's impossible. | 结果,一个人,这是不可能的。 |
| 9 | When he bought and opened a toaster to base his own on, Thwaites was immediately distraught. | 当他购买并打开一个烤面包机以建立自己的基础时,Thwaites立刻心烦意乱. |
| 10 | Despite it being a cheap $6 toaster, there were 400 parts made of more than 100 different materials. | 尽管它是一个廉价的6元烤面包机,但有400个零件由100多种不同的材料制成. |
| 11 | How was he possibly going to acquire or make all the materials and parts needed? | 他可能如何获得或制造所有所需材料和部件? |
| 12 | He had little to no idea where to obtain things like iron ore, plastic, copper, and rubber. | 他几乎不知道从哪里得到铁矿石、塑料、铜和橡胶。 |
| 13 | And so he began talking to professors and experts, reading up on the history and logistics | 于是他开始与教授和专家交谈, 阅读历史和后勤 |
| 14 | of various kinds of material sourcing and manufacturing. | 各种材料来源和制造。 |
| 15 | Over the following nine months, Thwaites found himself on an obscure journey across industries, | 在接下来的九个月里,Thwaites发现自己在一段模糊的跨行业旅程中, |
| 16 | the world, and history. | 世界和历史 |
| 17 | He got copper from an abandoned mine on the island of Anglesey in Wales, obtained iron | 他从威尔士安格莱西岛上的废弃矿井里 得到了铜 |
| 18 | ore from Clearwell Caves in England and then tried to smelt it using a homemade furnace, | 英国Clearwell洞穴的矿石 然后试图用自制炉子熔炼 |
| 19 | extracted mica off mountains in Scotland, and attempted to make plastic from potato | 从苏格兰的山上提取米卡 并尝试用土豆做塑料 |
| 20 | starch in his backyard. | 淀粉在他的后院。 |
| 21 | In the end, after nine months and thousands of dollars, Thwaites essentially had nothing | 最终,经过九个月零几千美元, Thwaites基本上什么都没有 |
| 22 | in the form of a fully functioning toaster. | 一种完全正常运转的烤面包机 |
| 23 | He couldn't figure out how to make rubber from scratch, so the wires had no insulation, | 他无法想出如何从零开始制造橡胶, 所以电线没有绝缘性, |
| 24 | and after five seconds of the toaster being plugged in and ran, the heating element | 并经过5秒钟的烤面包机 插入和运行,加热元素 |
| 25 | melted itself. | 融化了自己 融化了自己 融化了自己 |
| 26 | Thwaites' entire experiment, which would come to be known as the Toaster Project, | 他等待着整个实验 被称为烤面包机计划 |
| 27 | was inspired by a scene in Douglas Adams' novel series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, | 受道格拉斯·亚当斯小说系列的一幕启发 希契克的银河指南 |
| 28 | where a 20th century man finds himself stranded on a planet with technologically primitive people. | 一个20世纪的人发现自己 被困在一个技术原始的星球上 |
| 29 | He assumes that, with his experience with advanced technology, | 他假设,凭借他在先进技术方面的经验, |
| 30 | he'll be able to become a kind of emperor of the planet and transform its conditions. | 他能够成为地球的皇帝 改变它的状况 |
| 31 | Instead, he soon realizes, although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers | 相反,他很快意识到,虽然他最初来自一个拥有汽车和计算机的世界 |
| 32 | and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. | 芭蕾舞和阿马尼亚克, 他不知道它是如何工作的。 |
| 33 | He couldn't do it. | 他办不到 |
| 34 | Left to his own devices, he couldn't build a toaster. | 留给自己的设备,他无法建造烤面包机. |
| 35 | He could just about make a sandwich, and that was it. | 他可以做个三明治,就这样 |
| 36 | Without the rest of modern society, the intricate network of people, knowledge, and systems, | 没有现代社会的其余部分 复杂的人、知识和系统网络 |
| 37 | each with their own essential node in the process of civilization and its products, | 在文明及其产物的进程中, |
| 38 | the man really couldn't do much of anything in the modern technological sense. | 这个人在现代科技意义上真的无能为力 |
| 39 | Thwaites' project showed that this is also true for each of us on this planet right now. | Thwaites的项目表明,这对我们这个星球上的每一个人来说都是如此。 |
| 40 | Think about every object you use on a daily basis. | 考虑你每天使用的每一个物体. |
| 41 | From simple household items like forks, bottles, and couches, to intricate devices like phones, | 从简单的家庭用品 比如叉子、瓶子和沙发 到电话等复杂设备 |
| 42 | computers, cars, and toasters. | 电脑、汽车和烤面包机 |
| 43 | Every single one of them have massive intricate lineages of conception, | 每一个都有着巨大的复杂 的受孕血统, |
| 44 | design, production, and distribution required for them to wind up in each of our hands and homes. | 设计、生产和分配 让他们进入我们每个人的手中和家中 |
| 45 | As individuals, not only understanding, but carrying out the complete process of production | 作为个人,不仅理解,而且进行完整的生产过程 |
| 46 | for any object or technology, let alone all the objects we use, would be impossible. | 对于任何物体或技术,更不用说我们使用的所有物体,都是不可能的。 |
| 47 | With exception to simple, primitive tools, we would not accomplish much of anything on our own. | 除了简单、原始的工具之外,我们无法单独完成很多事情。 |
| 48 | Consider that in the case of a simple toaster, the copper for the wiring might be mined in Chile, | 考虑在简单烤面包机的情况下,布线的铜可能在智利开采, |
| 49 | processed in China, and then sent elsewhere for assembly. | 在中国加工,然后送往别处装配. |
| 50 | The nickel that makes up the heating element might be mined in Indonesia, | 构成加热元素的镍可能在印度尼西亚开采, |
| 51 | and then sent to China to be refined. | 然后被派往中国去修炼. |
| 52 | The iron ore might be mined in Australia, which still needs to be smelted into iron, | 铁矿石可能在澳大利亚开采 还需要熔炼成铁 |
| 53 | refined into steel, and then fabricated into the parts that make up the toaster's body and frame. | 炼成钢材,然后制成构成烤面包机体和框架的零件. |
| 54 | This goes for every part and material of the 400 plus parts that make up a simple toaster. | 这对组成一个简单的烤面包机的 400 + 零件的每一部分和材料来说都是如此。 |
| 55 | Hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals are essential to the process. | 数百人,甚至数以千计,对这一进程至关重要。 |
| 56 | Miners, designers, engineers, chemists, manufacturers, business operators, deliverers, | 矿工、设计师、工程师、化学家、制造商、商业经营者、送货人、 |
| 57 | and so on. | 诸如来. |
| 58 | Most of whom only know how to carry out their part of the process. | 他们中的大多数只知道如何履行他们在这一过程中的职责。 |
| 59 | Almost everything you use and touch on an average day | 几乎所有你使用和接触 平均一天 |
| 60 | is a kind of miracle forged out of the material of the earth and the human mind. | 这是一种奇迹 由地球和人类的心灵所创造 |
| 61 | Human engineering facilitated by vast networks of manufacturing, | 由庞大的制造业网络推动的人类工程, |
| 62 | brought to you by carefully orchestrated distribution channels, | 通过精心策划的传播渠道, |
| 63 | all of which originated from human thoughts and ideas. | 所有这一切都源于人类的思想和思想。 |
| 64 | In the words of poet John Donne, | 用诗人约翰·唐恩的话 |
| 65 | No man is an island entire of itself. | 没有人是整个岛。 |
| 66 | Every man is a piece of the continent, | 每个人都是大陆的一部分 |
| 67 | a part of the main, the beginning of everything. | 一部分主, 一切的开始。 |
| 68 | One thing that Thwaites discovered that is even more interesting and potentially | Thwaites发现的一件事 更有趣 更有可能 |
| 69 | existential crisis inducing is that the smaller the scale you want to work on, | 生存危机的诱导 是越小的尺度 你想工作, |
| 70 | the further back in time you have to go. | 更远的时间 你必须去。 |
| 71 | Every man-made object and technology is not only connected to the web of modern industry, | 每个人造的物体和技术 不仅与现代工业的网络相连 |
| 72 | but also to the web of human history. | 同时也是人类历史的网络 |
| 73 | The history of everything. | 一切历史. |
| 74 | Every new idea, every new design, every new object and technology, | 每一个新的想法,每一个新的设计,每一个新的对象和技术, |
| 75 | is built on the back of prior ideas, designs, and technologies, | 建立在以前的想法、设计和技术的背后, |
| 76 | all the way back to the first and simplest ideas and technologies. | 回到最简单的想法和技术 |
| 77 | Man learned to create fire hundreds of thousands of years ago, | 人类在数十万年前学会制造火 |
| 78 | so that now we can toast slices of bread equally on both sides at the same time. | 这样我们就可以同时在两边 一起烤面包 |
| 79 | One does not exist without the other. | 一个不存在,另一个不存在。 |
| 80 | Nothing exists without everything that led to it. | 没有导致它的一切,就不存在任何东西。 |
| 81 | But where did everything come from to begin with? | 但一切从何而来? |
| 82 | Where did it all start? | 从哪开始的? |
| 83 | Humanity itself does not exist in a vacuum. | 人类本身并不存在真空。 |
| 84 | We are a species in the context of nature and evolution and the world. | 我们是自然、进化和世界背景下的一个物种。 |
| 85 | And yet we are apparently alone in creating fire, | 然而,我们显然独自一人, |
| 86 | forging swords, constructing buildings, flying planes, | 造剑 建造建筑物 飞行器 |
| 87 | and building computers and digital intelligence systems, and everything else. | 电脑和数字情报系统 以及其他一切 |
| 88 | But why is this the case? | 但为什么这样? |
| 89 | Why and how did humanity separate so significantly from the apparent nature of everything else? | 为什么人类与其他事物的明显性质如此显著地分离? |
| 90 | The answer is, in large part, found in one of the most unsuspecting and almost humorous places. | 答案很大程度上是在最不怀疑和几乎幽默的地方之一找到的. |
| 91 | thumb指. | |
| 92 | The opposable appendage, sticking out the sides of each of our hands. | 可对抗的附着物 伸出我们双手的两侧 |
| 93 | By appearance alone, the opposable thumb might seem to be a modest biological mutation. | 仅从表面上看,可对抗的拇指可能似乎是一种适度的生物突变. |
| 94 | But this little appendage changed the world completely, | 但这个小附身彻底改变了世界 |
| 95 | allowing for a whole new realm of existence. | 允许全新的存在领域。 |
| 96 | All the networks of civilization that we experience today, | 我们今天经历的所有文明网络 |
| 97 | every technology and man-made object, the state of the world, | 所有技术和人造物体 世界状况 |
| 98 | our endless yearn made tangible, is, in large part, the product of this thing on our hands. | 我们无休止的渴望是显而易见的, 在很大程度上是我们手上的产物。 |
| 99 | With it brought almost everything else. | 它带来了几乎所有的东西。 |
| 100 | The thumb brain. | 拇指脑. |
| 101 | In 2025, a study out of the University of Reading in the UK, | 2025年,在英国阅读大学进行的一项研究, |
| 102 | titled Human Dexterity and Brains Evolved Hand in Hand, | 名为"人类德克斯特和大脑的手动演化", |
| 103 | explored the relationship between the size of opposable thumbs and the size of brains. | 探讨了可对抗拇指大小与大脑大小之间的关系. |
| 104 | The researchers analyzed nearly a hundred living and fossil primate species, | 研究人员分析了近百种活的和化石的灵长类物种, |
| 105 | including humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, | 包括人类,黑猩猩,大猩猩,猩猩, |
| 106 | macaques, and other ancient hominid species. | 其它古人类物种 |
| 107 | What they found surprised them. | 他们发现什么让他们吃惊。 |
| 108 | Longer thumbs not only appear to have a correlation with larger brain sizes, | 更长的拇指 不仅看起来与更大的大脑尺寸有关 |
| 109 | but the part of the brain that is bigger relative to longer thumbs is the neocortex. | 但大脑中相对于更长的拇指更大的部分是神经瘤. |
| 110 | The part of the brain responsible for higher order functions, | 大脑中负责更高秩序功能的部分, |
| 111 | like conscious thought, sensory perception, spatial reasoning, and complex language. | 比如意识思考,感知感知,空间推理,以及复杂的语言. |
| 112 | This suggests that these two things potentially grow together, the thumb and the neocortex. | 这表明这两种东西可能一起生长,即拇指和新科特克斯. |
| 113 | On the face of it, this might seem kind of absurd. | 从表面上看,这似乎有点荒谬。 |
| 114 | How or why would the thumb have any direct relationship with consciousness, | 拇指如何或为什么与意识有任何直接的关系, |
| 115 | with language, and with the complexity of thought? | 语言和思想的复杂性? |
| 116 | Though certainly bizarre, after examining it further, it makes a lot of sense. | 虽然很诡异,但经过进一步研究后,它很有道理。 |
| 117 | Without thumbs in some form, we wouldn't be able to meaningfully create or engage in anything | 没有某种形式的拇指,我们就无法有意义地创造或从事任何事情 |
| 118 | that requires gripping, grasping, holding, or pinching. | 这需要抓住,抓住, 持有,或捏。 |
| 119 | This includes early primitive tools like hammer stones, axes, sticks, and spears. | 这包括早期原始的工具,如锤石,斧头,棍子,和矛. |
| 120 | If humans never evolved thumbs, these tools would likely have never existed in the forms they did, | 如果人类从不进化出拇指 这些工具很可能从来就不存在 |
| 121 | and tools would have likely remained extremely simplistic. | 并且工具可能仍然极为简单。 |
| 122 | Consider the tools of other species without opposable thumbs. | 考虑其他物种的工具,没有可对抗的拇指. |
| 123 | Crows bend and shape twigs, finches use cactus spines, otters use rocks, and elephants direct | 乌鸦弯曲并形成树枝,鳍部使用仙人掌脊椎,水獭使用岩石,大象直接 |
| 124 | branches with their trunks. | 树枝和树干 |
| 125 | All of which is extremely simplistic, imprecise, and limited. | 所有这些都极为简单、不准确和有限。 |
| 126 | This, of course, matters a lot. | 这当然很重要 |
| 127 | If human tools remained equally imprecise and primitive, then early | 如果人类工具同样不精确和原始,那么早期 |
| 128 | humans would have been less precise in what they could do and build with such tools. | 人类用这些工具可以做什么和建设的并不那么精确。 |
| 129 | And if humans were less precise and more simplistic in their interfacing with the world, | 如果人类在与世界的交往中不够精确和简单 |
| 130 | then the mental modeling required to engage with tools in the world would have also remained | 那时,在世界上与工具打交道所需的精神模特也将继续 |
| 131 | more simplistic and minimal. | 更简单和最小。 |
| 132 | A species doesn't need complex terms and conceptual modeling | 一个物种不需要复杂的术语和概念模型 |
| 133 | for a world that they poke and smash. | 为了一个被他们戳破的世界 |
| 134 | But for a world that comprises increasing | 但对于一个不断增长的世界来说 |
| 135 | intricacy and strategy, it does. | 复杂和策略,它是。 |
| 136 | Complex tools seem to apply a kind of | 复杂的工具似乎应用一种 |
| 137 | pressure on the brain to expand. | 对大脑的压力 扩张。 |
| 138 | As the possibility and complexity of tools increase, | 随着工具的可能性和复杂性的增加, |
| 139 | so too must cognition. | 因此,也必须认识到。 |
| 140 | And as cognition increases, so too can the complexity of tools. | 随着认知的增加,工具的复杂性也随之增加. |
| 141 | What seems to be the result of a limited ability to grasp and grip isn't a slower | 控制力和控制力有限的结果 似乎不是比较慢 |
| 142 | development of tools, but it results in them never really getting off the ground floor. | 开发工具,但它的结果是,它们从来没有真正离开一楼。 |
| 143 | And consciousness thus never really expands, and civilization never begins. | 因此,意识从来没有真正扩张,文明也没有开始。 |
| 144 | But of course, we did evolve dumps. | 但是,当然,我们确实进化了垃圾堆。 |
| 145 | We learned to grasp, grip, pinch, and create. | 我们学会了抓住 抓住 抓住 创造 |
| 146 | We created axes and hammerstones, then spears and bow and arrows, then plows and the written | 我创造了斧头、锤子、矛头、弓箭、犁头和经文。 |
| 147 | word, then cars and planes and computers. | 然后是汽车、飞机和电脑 |
| 148 | Each of these creations expanded the | 每一个创造都扩大了 |
| 149 | possibilities and needs of the human species. | 人类的可能性和需要。 |
| 150 | At each point, the complexity of our relationship | 每当我们的关系变得复杂 |
| 151 | with the world grew. | 随着世界的增长。 |
| 152 | And at each point, so too did our cognitive abilities, creating a | 在每一点,我们的认知能力也一样, 创造了一个 |
| 153 | feedback loop where every cognitive enhancement has led to a greater ability to create more | 反馈循环,在这种循环中,每个认知增强都导致创造更多知识的能力增强。 |
| 154 | advanced tools and technologies, which continues to lead to cognitive enhancements, so on and so | 先进工具和技术,继续导致认知增强,等等 |
| 155 | forth. | 离开。 |
| 156 | What have we done? | 我们做了什么? |
| 157 | In the early 1890s, there were new campus buildings being constructed | 1890年代早期,兴建了新的校园建筑. |
| 158 | at Ohio State University. | 在俄亥俄州立大学 |
| 159 | As part of the new developments, a large central grass space was | 作为新发展的一部分,一个巨大的中央草原空间是 |
| 160 | created that would come to be known as the Oval. | 创造了将被称为 " 孤儿 " 。 |
| 161 | For years, there were no official walkways in the | 多年来,没有正式的走道 |
| 162 | Oval. | 欧华. |
| 163 | Just an open field. | 只是一块空地 |
| 164 | As students began walking across the grass to get to and from | 当学生们开始走过草地 |
| 165 | different buildings, however, they began choosing specific routes that were shortest or most | 然而,不同的建筑开始选择最短或最短的具体路线。 |
| 166 | convenient. | 简便。 |
| 167 | Soon, dirt trails began to appear on these routes as the students wore the grass | 很快,这些路线上开始出现泥土痕迹 当学生穿草 |
| 168 | down from frequent walking. | 经常走下来。 |
| 169 | Then, even more students began to walk the same routes, now with | 然后,更多的学生开始走同样的路线,现在与 |
| 170 | a visual trail. | 一个视觉线索。 |
| 171 | These worn down trails are what are known as desire paths. | 这些被磨损的痕迹 被称为欲望之路。 |
| 172 | They appear all over | 到处都是 |
| 173 | the world in cities, campuses, and parks for similar reasons. | 世界在城市,校园, 和公园 出于类似的原因。 |
| 174 | By the early 1900s at Ohio State | 到1900年代初在俄亥俄州立大学 |
| 175 | University, the university based their placement of concrete sidewalks in the Oval off these desire | 大学,大学把混凝土人行道 安置在奥瓦尔 以这些欲望为中心 |
| 176 | paths. | 路径。 |
| 177 | The outcome was a strange asymmetrical pattern of sidewalks sprawling across the grass | 结果是人行道的不对称模式 横跨草丛 |
| 178 | field, each path meeting at certain centers and connection points, all together creating a kind | 字段,每个路径在一定的中心点和连接点相会,共同创建一种 |
| 179 | of webbing of apparent random connectivity forged by the continual patterns of human desire and | 人类不断的欲望模式和 |
| 180 | goals. | 目标。 |
| 181 | We so often feel like we are choosing where we are going, what we are doing, and why. | 我们常常感到我们选择我们要去的地方、我们在做什么和为什么。 |
| 182 | But | 不过 |
| 183 | history is a desire path. | 历史是一种欲望之路。 |
| 184 | The world is a network of these apparently random connections forged by | 世界是一个网络 这些显然随机 连接由 |
| 185 | the patterns of human desire and goals, through which we each walk every day and every moment. | 人类的欲望和目标的规律, 我们每天和每时每刻都通过这些模式行走。 |
| 186 | The development of tools and technologies don't merely affect how we tangibly interact with the | 工具和技术的发展并不仅仅影响我们如何与 |
| 187 | world, but also how we understand and think about it abstractly. | 我们如何抽象地理解和思考它。 |
| 188 | We each not only arrive with our | 我们不只带着我们 |
| 189 | thumbs, but we arrive with our particular cognitive models of the world, a particular size of the | 拇指,但我们来到了 我们特殊的认知模型 世界,一个特殊的大小 |
| 190 | neocortex, and an understanding of phenomena developed and facilitated by a state of technology | 和对由技术状况发展和推动的现象的理解 |
| 191 | and a corresponding state of culture. | 和相应的文化状态。 |
| 192 | Thumbs did not merely lead to spears, spoons, writing, | 拇指不仅仅导致长矛,勺子,写作, |
| 193 | toasters, and cell phones, but they also in some meaningful sense led to the creation of religions, | 烤面包机和手机 但从某种意义上来说 也导致了宗教的产生 |
| 194 | of philosophies, of ideologies, of beliefs. | 哲学、意识形态、信仰 |
| 195 | Where does everything go from here? | 一切从何而去. |
| 196 | Before thumbs, | 在拇指之前, |
| 197 | animals couldn't grasp or grip the world. | 动物无法掌握世界 |
| 198 | Thumbs evolved as a way to literally do this, | 拇指进化 作为一种方法 字面上做到这一点, |
| 199 | to gain greater control over the world and its inherent chaos and uncertainty. | 获得对世界及其固有的混乱和不确定性的更大控制。 |
| 200 | But ironically, through what thumbs have allowed us to do and create and understand, | 但讽刺的是,通过拇指 允许我们做什么 创造和理解, |
| 201 | we have mostly discovered how little control we can ever have over anything. | 我们发现我们无法控制一切 |
| 202 | We have built | 我们建造了 |
| 203 | an unfathomably complex civilization, cultures and industries, ideologies and religions and | 文明、文化和工业、意识形态和宗教 |
| 204 | philosophies, math and science. | 哲学,数学与科学. |
| 205 | We have created fire and toasters and smartphones, all to have | 我创造了火炉、烤面包机、智能手机, |
| 206 | no control over or understanding of the very things and systems we built. | 没有控制或理解 我们建立的东西和系统。 |
| 207 | The modern world | 现代世界 |
| 208 | is a kind of self-propelling network of desires formed from the walking paths of the humans and | 一种自我推动的欲望网络 从人类和人类的行走中形成 |
| 209 | species before us. | 我们面前的物种。 |
| 210 | Modern industry and culture move forward, producing new technologies and new | 现代工业和文化向前发展,生产新技术和新技术。 |
| 211 | ideas that appear in our hands and our homes and our minds. | 我们的家园和思想中出现的想法。 |
| 212 | And yet, we never really can see or | 然而,我们从来没有真正看到或 |
| 213 | understand the complete process of any of it, where it all comes from, how it's made, and why. | 了解其中任何一个过程的完整过程,所有过程来自何处,如何制作,以及原因. |
| 214 | Ultimately, each of our existences are a network of contingencies that no one person or group ever | 归根结底,我们每一个存在 是一个突发事件网络 从来没有任何人或团体 |
| 215 | had a say in, ever started, or can ever fully understand or take control of. | 或能够完全理解或控制 |
| 216 | Our beliefs and | 我们的信仰和 |
| 217 | ideas are really not so dissimilar from a toaster, made of hundreds if not thousands of parts and | 想法与烤面包机真的没有那么不同, 由数百甚至数千个零件组成, |
| 218 | materials sourced from all over the world and tracing deep into history. | 来自世界各地的材料 并追踪到历史深处 |
| 219 | What would we have | 我们会有什么 |
| 220 | been without thumbs? | 没有拇指? |
| 221 | What would the world have become? | 世界会变成什么? |
| 222 | Perhaps something entirely alien to us, | 也许我们之间完全陌生的东西 |
| 223 | or perhaps something incredibly basic and simple. | 也许是一些非常简单的基本事物 |
| 224 | We'll never know, but we can know that the world | 我们永远不会知道, 但我们可以知道世界 |
| 225 | we have created appears entirely alien to everything else in the cosmos. | 我们所创造的一切与宇宙中的一切完全不同 |
| 226 | A beautiful | 一个美丽的 |
| 227 | and terrifying array of technological and cognitive possibility, of desire and need, | 以及各种可怕的技术和认知可能性、欲望和需要, |
| 228 | of good and bad, of intelligence and ignorance. | 善恶,智慧和无知 |
| 229 | We don't know where we are going or why. | 我们不知道我们要去哪里或为什么。 |
| 230 | We don't | 我们没有 |
| 231 | know why the whole process started. | 知道为什么整个过程开始。 |
| 232 | We don't know what our thumbs and minds will hold next. | 我们不知道接下来的拇指和头脑会是什么 |
| 233 | But in any and every moment, we can know just how absurd and improbable holding anything is. | 但是,在任何时刻,我们都知道,持有任何东西是多么荒谬和不可能。 |
| 234 | From the simplest to the grandest of moments and objects. | 从最简单到最伟大的时刻和物体 |
| 235 | For a toaster to arrive on your | 一个烤面包机 到达你的 |
| 236 | counter. | 计数器。 |
| 237 | For a pen to arrive in your drawer. | 你抽屉里有支笔 |
| 238 | For shoes to arrive on your feet. | 让你脚踏实地的鞋子 |
| 239 | A phone in | 电话进来了 |
| 240 | your pocket. | 你口袋里的东西 |
| 241 | A concept in your mind. | 你脑子里有个概念 |
| 242 | And a thumb on your hand. | 和拇指在你的手上。 |
| 243 | Through our thumbs and minds, | 通过我们的拇指和思想, |
| 244 | we have changed the world completely. | 我们彻底改变了世界。 |
| 245 | This is no doubt equated to many miraculous things, | 这无疑相当于许多奇迹 |
| 246 | but it is also equated to many devastating things. | 但它也等同于许多毁灭性的东西。 |
| 247 | We must use our thumbs and minds, | 我们必须用我们的拇指和头脑 |
| 248 | our capabilities and power, as much as we do to create and innovate, to help preserve and protect | 我们的能力和力量,就像我们创造和创新一样,帮助维护和保护 |
| 249 | this planet, to undo damage we've done, and to help nature in ways that only we as humans can. | 以我们人类所能达到的方式帮助大自然 |
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