【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. 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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