Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality)

翻译人员: Xinfeng Quan 校对人员: Angelia King

Marco Tempest: What I'd like to show you today

马尔科：今天我要向大家展示

is something in the way of an experiment.

一项正在进行中的实验

Today's its debut.

今天是首演

It's a demonstration of augmented reality.

这将是现实被增强的一个示范

And the visuals you're about to see are not prerecorded.

大家将要看到的画面并非提前录制

They are live

这是现场表演

and reacting to me in real time.

跟我之间是即时互动

I like to think of it as a kind of technological magic.

我喜欢把它看成一种科技魔术

So fingers crossed.

祝我好运

And keep your eyes on the big screen.

请大家锁定大屏幕

Augmented reality

增强现实

is the melding of the real world

是依靠电脑生成的图像

with computer-generated imagery.

而与真实世界融为混合体

It seems the perfect medium

这似乎是窥探魔术

to investigate magic

的最佳途径

and ask, why, in a technological age,

同时也向人们提问

we continue to have

在科技时代人们为何仍旧

this magical sense of wonder.

对魔幻保有如此的感知力

Magic is deception,

魔术是一种骗术

but it is a deception we enjoy.

但却令人享受

To enjoy being deceived,

要享受这种欺骗

an audience must first

观众必须首先

suspend its disbelief.

放弃怀疑

It was the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

第一次提出这种接受心态的

who first suggested this receptive state of mind.

是诗人塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I try to convey a semblance of truth in my writing

柯勒律治说：我在写作中努力传达一种真理的假象

to produce for these shadows of the imagination

为想象力的影子

a willing suspension of disbelief

带来放弃怀疑的意愿

that, for a moment,

这样，在某个片刻

constitutes poetic faith.

它们便能构成诗意的信念

MT: This faith in the fictional is essential

马尔科：对任何一种剧场的经验来说

for any kind of theatrical experience.

这种虚幻的信念都至关重要

Without it,

没有这种信念

a script is just words.

脚本就只是一堆字词

Augmented reality

增强现实

is just the latest technology.

是最新的科技

And sleight of hand

我手中的技巧

is just an artful demonstration

只是一种灵巧的

of dexterity.

艺术的展示

We are all very good at suspending our disbelief.

我们都很擅长放弃怀疑

We do it every day,

每天如此

while reading novels,

我们读小说

watching television

看电视

or going to the movies.

或者去看电影

We willingly enter fictional worlds

我们自愿进入虚拟的世界

where we cheer our heroes

在那里崇拜英雄

and cry for friends we never had.

为从不曾有的朋友哭泣

Without this ability

没有这种能力

there is no magic.

也就没有魔术

It was Jean Robert-Houdin,

让·罗伯特·胡迪

France's greatest illusionist,

法国伟大的魔术师

who first recognized the role of the magician

第一次发现魔术师

as a storyteller.

可以成为说书人

He said something that I've posted on the wall of my studio.

他的话就刻在我工作室的墙上

Jean Robert-Houdin: A conjurer is not a juggler.

让·罗伯特·胡迪：魔术师不是骗子

He is an actor playing the part of a magician.

而是表演魔术的演员

MT: Which means magic is theater

马尔科：这说明魔术是一场戏剧

and every trick

一招一式

is a story.

都是故事

The tricks of magic

魔法的招数

follow the archetypes of narrative fiction.

遵循叙事小说的原型

There are tales of creation and loss,

故事有创造，有失败

death and resurrection,

有死亡，有复活

and obstacles that must be overcome.

还有必须攀越的障碍

Now many of them are intensely dramatic.

现今很多故事的戏剧性都很强

Magicians play with fire and steel,

魔术师玩弄烈火钢刀

defy the fury of the buzzsaw,

挑战电锯金刚的狂怒

dare to catch a bullet

有勇气手接子弹

or attempt a deadly escape.

并试图从死亡线逃离

But audiences don't come to see the magician die,

但是观众却未曾见到魔术师的死亡

they come to see him live.

他们总安全无事

Because the best stories

因为最好的故事

always have a happy ending.

总以快乐结尾

The tricks of magic have one special element.

魔术的诀窍在于一种特殊的元素

They are stories with a twist.

即是故事的离奇性

Now Edward de Bono argued

爱德华·德·博诺说

that our brains are pattern matching machines.

人们的大脑是一种图形匹配的机器

He said that magicians deliberately exploit

他说，魔术师很谨慎地发掘

the way their audiences think.

观众的想法

Edward de Bono: Stage magic relies almost wholly

爱德华·德·博诺：舞台魔术基本上

on the momentum error.

全部仰仗动量的误差

The audience is led to make assumptions or elaborations

观众被引导做出种种假设或构思

that are perfectly reasonable,

看似十分合理

but do not, in fact, match

但事实上

what is being done in front of them.

却和魔术师展示大相径庭

MT: In that respect,

马尔科：在这方面

magic tricks are like jokes.

魔术和笑话很像

Jokes lead us down a path

笑话带人们上路

to an expected destination.

指向一个预期的终点

But when the scenario we have imagined suddenly flips

当我们想象的场景突然转变

into something entirely unexpected,

完全出乎意料

we laugh.

我们就会大笑

The same thing happens

人们观看魔术

when people watch magic tricks.

也是这样

The finale

压轴的地方

defies logic,

不合逻辑

gives new insight into the problem,

在同一问题上给出全新的见解

and audiences express their amazement

观众的惊愕

with laughter.

变成哈哈大笑

It's fun to be fooled.

被愚弄是很有趣的

One of the key qualities of all stories

故事最重要的特点之一

is that they're made to be shared.

就是创造之后的分享

We feel compelled to tell them.

我们总是迫不及待地想要讲述

When I do a trick at a party --

每当我在晚会上表演魔术--

(Laughter)

（笑声）

that person will immediately pull their friend over

那个人就立即拉他的朋友过来

and ask me to do it again.

叫我再演一次

They want to share the experience.

他们想分享这种经历

That makes my job more difficult,

但这让表演变得越来越难

because, if I want to surprise them,

因为，如果我想给他们惊喜

I need to tell a story that starts the same,

我讲的故事开头相同

but ends differently --

但结尾却必须不同--

a trick with a twist

招数有所改变

on a twist.

改变就在其中

It keeps me busy.

这搞的我很忙

Now experts believe

专家们在今天相信

that stories go beyond our capacity for keeping us entertained.

出人意料的故事给人带来欢乐

We think in narrative structures.

我们按照叙事的结构思考

We connect events and emotions

把事件和情感相连

and instinctively transform them

几乎同时将之转化

into a sequence that can be easily understood.

变成容易理解的故事线

It's a uniquely human achievement.

这是人类的独特才能

We all want to share our stories,

所有人都想分享自己的故事

whether it is the trick we saw at the party,

不论是晚会中上演的把戏

the bad day at the office

办公室糟糕的一天

or the beautiful sunset we saw on vacation.

或假期中的美丽日落

Today, thanks to technology,

今天，感谢科技

we can share those stories as never before,

故事可以通过不同以往的方式分享

by email, Facebook,

比如电子邮件，脸谱网，

blogs, tweets,

博客，微博

on TED.com.

TED.com

The tools of social networking,

社交网络工具

these are the digital campfires

成为一种数字式的营火

around which the audience gathers

观众聚集在其周围

to hear our story.

倾听我们的故事

We turn facts into similes and metaphors,

我们赋予事实明喻或暗喻

and even fantasies.

甚至幻想

We polish the rough edges of our lives

我们将生活艰难的一面打磨

so that they feel whole.

生活得以完整

Our stories make us the people we are

故事成就我们对自身的认同

and, sometimes, the people we want to be.

而有时候，它让我们成为自己想要变成的那种人的认同

They give us our identity

故事赋予我们身份

and a sense of community.

让我们感觉到社区的存在

And if the story is a good one,

如果故事不赖

it might even make us smile.

就能让人开怀而笑

Thank you.

谢谢

(Applause)

（鼓掌）

Thank you.

谢谢

(Applause)

（鼓掌）