TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(2)

The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will remember. 第二个故事，和那些我相信你们大多数人都见过或者记得相关事情。 Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, 非洲

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(3)

But that narrative is being challenged now 然而，这个故事现在遇到了挑战 because the continent has not been doing well in the last two years. 因为非洲大陆在过去两年内一直表现不佳。 It had been growing at five percent p

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(4)

Two, debt. In 1994, the debt-to-GDP ratio of African countries was 130 percent, and they didn't have fiscal space. 第二件事，债务。在1994年，非洲国家债务对GDP的比例是130%，而且他们没有财政空间。 They couldn't use the

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(5)

And this mobile money is also providing a platform for access to alternative energy. 这项移动支付技术也为获取替代能源提供了一个平台。 You know, people who can now pay for solar the same way they pay for cards for their telepho

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(7)

So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. 即使我们一直在发展，经济的机构并没有什么改变。 We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's exporting j

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(8)

Now, where do we go from there? 现在，我们该走向何方？ I believe that the way forward is to learn to manage success. 我相信前进的道路就是学会管理成功。 Very often, when people succeed or countries succeed, they forget what

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(9)

We have genius in our young people. I see it every day. 我们的年轻人拥有天赋。我每天都看得到。 It's what makes me wake up in the morning and feel ready to go. 这就是每天早上叫醒我并且让我整装待发的东西。 We ha

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(10)

So you mentioned corruption in your talk, and you're known, well-known as a strong anticorruption fighter. 你在你的演讲中提到了腐败，而你作为一个反腐败人士是非常知名的。 But that's had consequences. People have fought b

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(1)

Is there life beyond Earth in our solar system? 在地球以外，太阳系里还有生命吗？ Wow, what a powerful question. 哇，多么掷地有声的问题！ You know, as a scientist -- planetary scientist -- we really didn't take that very se

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(2)

Why? We look at the inner planets. 为什么？让我们看看太阳系的行星： Venus is way too hot -- it's got no water. 金星太热所以没水。 Mars -- dry and arid. It's got no water. 火星干旱贫瘠，也不会有水。 And beyond Mar

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(3)

And in fact, Curiosity -- which has been roving on the surface now for about three years -- 事实上，好奇号探测车，在火星表面上漫游已经有三年了 has really shown us that it's sitting in an ancient river bed, where water flowed

TED演讲:可能存在生命的三颗卫星和一颗行星(4)

A few months ago the fairy tale came true. 几个月前，童话故事成真了！ We announced to the world that we know what these streaks are. It's liquid water. 我们向世界宣布，我们已经知道这些条纹是什么了。是液态水。

TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(6)

The first was that even though we grew, we didn't create enough jobs. 一，虽然我们进步，我们却没有创造足够的就业岗位。 We didn't create jobs for our youth. 我们没有为我们的年轻人创造就业岗位。 Youth unemploym

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(11)

Not only that, we're continuing to plant one or two species and weed out the aspens and birches. 不仅如此，我们还在继续种植着那一两种单一的树木，还继续着把山杨和桦树清除出去。 These simplified forests lack compl

TED演讲:树木之间如何交流(12)

First, we all need to get out in the forest. 首先，我们都得走出家门，走进森林。 We need to reestablish local involvement in our own forests. 我们需要重新使当地的居民融入到我们森林中去。 You see, most of our fore

TED演讲:我们的工作将被机器取代 但也有例外(1)

So this is my niece. Her name is Yahli. She is nine months old. 这是我的侄女。她叫Yahli。她只有九个月大。 Her mum is a doctor, and her dad is a lawyer. 她妈妈是一名医生，爸爸是一名律师。 By the time Yahli goes to co

TED演讲:我们的工作将被机器取代 但也有例外(2)

In 2012, Kaggle challenged its community to build an algorithm that could grade high-school essays. 2012年，Kaggle给当地学校出了个难题，设计一个算法来评判高中作文。 The winning algorithms were able to match the grades given

TED演讲:我们的工作将被机器取代 但也有例外(3)

Now, this is a particularly remarkable example of creativity. 这是个非常杰出的创新例子。 But this sort of cross-pollination happens for each of us in small ways thousands of times per day. 但这种跨界转型每天正以难以察觉的方

TED演讲:怎样让企业持续运行100年(1)

Imagine that you are a product designer. 把自己想象成一个产品设计师。 And you've designed a product, a new type of product, called the human immune system. 你设计了一种产品，一种叫做人体免疫机制的新产品 You're pit

TED演讲:怎样让企业持续运行100年(2)

I can see I'm losing you, Bob, but stay with me, because here is the really killer feature. 我知道你开始听不懂了，鲍勃，但请听我说完，因为现在才是产品的杀手锏 The product is completely adaptive. 这种产品具有极强