Jay Walker: A library of human imagination

翻译人员: 乔 安娜 校对人员: Yvonne Fu

These rocks have been hitting our earth for about three billion years,

这些石块在过去的三十亿年间一直不断撞击着地球

and are responsible for much of what’s gone on on our planet.

它们是地球上发生的很多事情的原因

This is an example of a real meteorite,

这是一块陨石的样本

and you can see all the melting of the iron

你可以看见很多金属融化的部分

from the speed and the heat when a meteorite hits the earth,

这是陨石撞击地球产生的速度和热量

and just how much of it survives and melts.

所剩余和融化的结果

From a meteorite from space,

从一块陨石到太空，

we’re over here with an original Sputnik.

我们来谈谈一个最初的人造卫星

This is one of the seven surviving Sputniks that was not launched into space.

这是未被发射到太空的七个剩余卫星中的一个

This is not a copy.

不是复制品

The space age began 50 years ago in October,

太空时代开始于50年前的十月

and that’s exactly what Sputnik looked like.

而这就是卫星的样子

And it wouldn’t be fun to talk about the space age

如果不能看到由阿波罗11号

without seeing a flag that was carried

带上月球又返回的旗帜

to the moon and back, on Apollo 11.

谈论太空时代就没那么有趣了

The astronauts each got to carry

每名宇航员在自己的装备中

about ten silk flags in their personal kits.

都得带上10个左右的丝绸旗帜

They would bring them back and mount them.

再将它们带回来展览

So this has actually been carried to the moon

所以这些旗子是去过月球的

and back.

又被带回来

So that’s for fun.

闲言少叙

The dawn of books is, of course, important.

书籍的起源固然很重要

And it wouldn’t be interesting to talk about the dawn of books

让我们看看谷登堡版圣经吧

without having a copy of a Guttenberg Bible.

这会使得谈论书籍起源更有趣些

You can see how portable and handy it was to have your own Guttenberg

大家看，一本1455年的谷登堡版圣经

in 1455.

多么轻便

But what’s interesting about the Guttenberg Bible, and the dawn of this technology,

而谷登堡版圣经和它的印刷技术之所以有趣却

is not the book.

不在于这本书

You see, the book was not driven by reading.

想想看，这本书的产生不是由于阅读的需要

In 1455, nobody could read.

在1455年，还没人识字呢

So why did the printing press succeed?

那么印刷术是怎么成功的？

This is an original page of a Guttenberg Bible.

这是最初的谷登堡版圣经的一页

So you’re looking here at one of the first printed books

所以你现在看见的正是

using movable type in the history of man,

历史上最初应用活字凸版应刷的书籍之一

550 years ago.

那是550年前的事了

We are living at the age here at the end of the book,

我们正活在书的最末一页

where electronic paper will undoubtedly replace it.

电子印刷术将会毫无疑问地取代活字凸版的年代

But why is this so interesting? Here’s the quick story.

但这有趣在哪？简单地讲是这样的

It turns out that in the 1450s,

在15世纪50年代

the Catholic Church needed money,

天主教会需要用钱

and so they

因此他们印刷赎罪券

actually hand-wrote these things called indulgences,

赎罪券事实上是手写在纸上的

which were forgiveness’s on pieces of paper.

豁免权

They traveled all around Europe

它们在欧洲大陆上漫天飞舞

and sold by the hundreds or by the thousands.

被成百上千地出售

They got you out of purgatory faster.

它们可以帮助你早日涤罪

And when the printing press was invented

在印刷机被发明之后

what they found was they could print indulgences,

教会发现他们可以印刷赎罪券

which was the equivalent of printing money.

也就相当于印刷纸币

And so all of Western Europe started buying printing presses in 1455 --

于是在1455年整个欧洲西部开始购买印刷机

to print out thousands,

来印刷成百上千

and then hundreds of thousands,

而后成千上万

and then ultimately millions

而后数不胜数的

of single, small pieces of paper

单页的小纸片

that got you out of middle hell and into heaven.

声称能将你从地狱中引领入天堂

That is why the printing press succeeded,

这就是印刷机成功的原因

and that is why Martin Luther

也是马丁路德

nailed his 90 theses to the door:

在教堂张贴他的90条论纲的起因

because he was complaining that the Catholic Church had gone amok

他抱怨天主教会通过

in printing out indulgences and selling them

印刷赎罪券并大肆在

in every town and village and city in all of Western Europe.

欧洲西部的每个市镇乡村疯狂售卖

So the printing press, ladies and gentlemen,

因此，女士们先生们，印刷机

was driven entirely by the printing of forgivenesses

是被复印赎罪券的需求推动的

and had nothing to do with reading.

完全与阅读无关

More tomorrow. I also have pictures coming of the library

明天还会展示更多。我还有一些从图书馆带来的图片

for those of you that have asked for pictures.

是为想要图片的各位准备的

We’re going to have some tomorrow.

明天还有更多

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Instead of showing an object from the stage

我将会做些前所未有的事情

I’m going to do something special for the first time.

而不是在讲台上展示一样物品

We are going to show, actually, what the library looks like, OK?

我将会向大家展示图书馆

So, I am married to the most wonderful woman in the world.

我娶到了世界上最完美的女人

You’re going to find out why in a minute,

你马上就会知道原因了

because when I went to see Eileen,

因为当我去见艾琳的时候

this is what I said I wanted to build.

我和她说这就是我一直想要建造的

This is the Library of Human Imagination.

这是人类思维的图书馆

The room itself is three stories tall.

仅这房间就有三层楼高

In the glass panels are 5,000 years of human imagination

在这些玻璃板上是5000年来的人类思维

that are computer controlled.

是电脑控制的

The room is a theatre. It changes colors.

这房间是一个剧院，可以改变颜色

And all throughout the library are different objects, different spaces.

整间图书馆是充斥着不同的物件，有不同的空间

It’s designed like an Escher print.

被设计成埃舍尔图的样子

Here is some of the lower level of the library,

这是图书馆的底层

where the exhibits constantly change.

展示着不断变化的展品

You can walk through. You can touch.

你可以通过，可以触摸

You can see exactly how many of these types of items would fit in a room.

你可以看见如此多的物件在一个房间里

There’s my very own Saturn V.

这是我个人的土星五号

Everybody should have one, OK? (Laughter)

我认为每个人都应该有一个

So you can see here in the lower level of the library

你可以看到图书馆的底层的

the books and the objects.

书籍和物件

In the glass panels all along is sort of the history of imagination.

沿着玻璃板，是一种思维史

There is a glass bridge that you walk across

这是用来供人走的玻璃桥

that’s suspended in space.

悬空的

So it’s a leap of imagination.

是思维的跨越

How do we create?

那么我们如何进行创造呢？

Part of the question that I have answered is,

我已经回答了这个问题的一部分了

is we create by surrounding ourselves with stimuli:

那就是不断使自己受到

with human achievement, with history,

人类历史上的成就的激励

with the things that drive us and make us human --

受到那些推动我们进步，使我们得以为人的成就的刺激

the passionate discovery, the bones of dinosaurs long gone,

那激动人心的发现，古老的恐龙的骨骼

the maps of space that we’ve experienced,

那我们到过的宇宙的地图

and ultimately the hallways that stimulate our mind and our imagination.

以及那激励了我们的思想和想象力的通道

So hopefully tomorrow I’ll show

所以希望明天我可以在这个讲台上向大家展示

one or two more objects from the stage,

一两件物品

but for today I just wanted to say thank you

对于今天我对大家表示感谢

for all the people that came and talked to us about it.

感谢那些前来和我们谈论这件事的人

And Eileen and I are thrilled to open our home

我和艾琳非常期待将我们的房子敞开

and share it with the TED community.

与TED的公众共享

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TED is all about patterns in the clouds.

TED是云图

It’s all about connections.

它的意义在于联系

It’s all about seeing things

在于开拓视野

that everybody else has seen before

使大家见到前所未见的

but thinking about them in ways that nobody has thought of them before.

使大家以前所未有的方式去思考

And that’s really what discovery and imagination is all about.

这也是探索发现和想象的意义

For example, we can look

例如，我们看一下

at a DNA molecule model here.

这个DNA分子模型

None of us really have ever seen one,

我们都从没见过

but we know it exists because we’ve been taught

但我们学过，所以知道它的存在

to understand this molecule.

和组成

But we can also look at an Enigma machine

让我们也来看看二战时期纳粹党的

from the Nazis in World War II

恩尼格玛密电码机

that was a coding and decoding machine.

这是一个编码和解码的机器

Now, you might say, what does this have to do with this?

现在你可能要问，这二者有什么关系呢？

Well, this is the code for life,

嗯，这个是生命的密码

and this is a code for death.

这个是死亡的密码

These two molecules

这两个分子

code and decode.

编码和解码

And yet, looking at them, you would see a machine and a molecule.

而看看他们，你将会看见一台机器和一个分子

But once you’ve seen them in a new way,

但如果你以新的方式去看待他们

you realize that both of these things really are connected.

你将会发现事实上他们是有联系的

And they’re connected primarily because of this here.

而不只是因为他们都在这儿

You see, this is a human brain model, OK?

这是一个人脑模型，是吧？

And it’s rare, because we never really get to see a brain.

这很稀有，因为我们不总能看见人脑

We get to see a skull. But there it is.

我们通常看到头骨。但它就在这儿了

All of imagination -- everything that we think,

都是由于想象，一切我们所想

we feel, we sense -- comes through the human brain.

所感，都来自于人脑

And once we create new patterns in this brain,

而一旦我们在头脑中创造了新的想法

once we shape the brain in a new way,

以新的方式塑造我们的头脑

it never returns to its original shape.

它绝不会回到原来的样子的

And I’ll give you a quick example.

我举一个简单的例子

We think about the Internet;

我们想到网络的时候

we think about information that goes across the Internet.

我们想到的是网络上传播的信息

And we never think about the hidden connection.

我们从不会想到那些潜在的联系

But I brought along here a lump of coal --

我带来了一块煤

right here, one lump of coal.

在这，一块煤

And what does a lump of coal have to do with the Internet?

那么一块煤与网络有什么联系呢?

You see, it takes the energy in one lump of coal

你看，网络需要煤产生的能量

to move one megabyte of information across the net.

来使每兆字节的信息在网络上传播

So every time you download a file,

所以每当你下载了一个文件

each megabyte is a lump of coal.

每兆字节都是一块煤

What that means is, a 200-megabyte file

这就意味着，一个200亿兆字节的文件

looks like this, ladies and gentlemen. OK?

看起来是这样的，女士们先生们

So the next time you download a gigabyte,

所以下次你下载一个10亿字节

or two gigabytes, it’s not for free, OK?

或20亿字节的文件时，是有代价的，好吗？

The connection is the energy it takes to run the web ,

此间的联系便是能量使其在网络上传播

and to make everything we think possible, possible.

使得我们所认为可能的事情，变成可能

Thanks, Chris.

谢谢，Chris

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