Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming

翻译人员: Guo Tang 校对人员: Angelia King

My story begins right here actually in Rajasthan

我的故事就发生在拉贾斯坦邦

about two years ago.

是在大约两年前

I was in the desert, under the starry skies

我在沙漠，在一个满是星光的天空下

with the Sufi singer Mukhtiar Ali.

和一名苏菲派的歌手木泰哈·阿里

And we were in conversation

我们的谈话是关于

about how nothing had changed

没有任何事情被改变

since the time of the ancient Indian epic "The Mahabharata."

自从古代印度史诗《摩呵婆罗多》的时候起

So back in the day, when us Indians wanted to travel

回到过去，当我们想去旅游

we'd jump into a chariot and we'd zoom across the sky.

我们跳进了一个战车飞驰过了天空

Now we do the same with airplanes.

现在我们用飞机可以同样做到

Back then,

在那个时候，

when Arjuna, the great Indian warrior prince,

当印度伟大的战王阿朱那，

when he was thirsty, he'd take out a bow,

当他渴了，他拔出一支箭，

he'd shoot it into the ground and water would come out.

射进地里水就会出来

Now we do the same

现在我们同样地

with drills and machines.

用钻头和机器

The conclusion that we came to

我们得到的结论就是

was that magic had been replaced

魔法被

by machinery.

机器代替了

And this made me really sad.

这令我感到伤心

I found myself becoming a little bit of a technophobe.

我发掘自己有点像个技术恐惧者

I was terrified by this idea

我对这种想法感到恐惧

that I would lose the ability

我将会失去

to enjoy and appreciate the sunset

享受和欣赏日落的能力

without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends.

在没有相机，没有和我的朋友们微博的情况下

And it felt like technology

而且我觉得科技

should enable magic, not kill it.

应该实现魔法，而不是扼杀它

When I was a little girl,

当我还是一个小女孩，

my grandfather gave me his little silver pocket watch.

我的爷爷给我他的小银怀表

And this piece of 50-year-old technology

这个50年久的科技玩意

became the most magical thing to me.

成了对我最有魔力的东西

It became a gilded gateway

在我的想象力中，它变成了一个镀金的大门

into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks

带我通向一个充满了海盗和失事船只

and images in my imagination.

和富有想象的世界

So I felt like our cellphones

所以我觉得我们的手机

and our fancy watches and our cameras

我们华丽的手表和我们的相机

had stopped us from dreaming.

让我们停止了梦想

They stopped us from being inspired.

它们让我们失去了灵感

And so I jumped in, I jumped into this world of technology,

所以我投入进了这个科技的世界，

to see how I could use it to enable magic

看看如何能用它们来创造魔法

as opposed to kill it.

而不是扼杀它们

I've been illustrating books since I was 16.

我从16岁起就开始为书来作插图

And so when I saw the iPad,

当我看到iPad,

I saw it as a storytelling device

我把它当作一个讲故事的设备

that could connect readers all over the world.

可以将全世界的读者都联系起来

It can know how we're holding it.

它可以知道我们是如何拿着它

It can know where we are.

知道我们在哪里

It brings together image and text

它将图像和文字

and animation and sound and touch.

动画，声音和触感都结合起来

Storytelling is becoming

讲故事变成了

more and more multi-sensorial.

越来越多的多感官

But what are we doing with it?

但是我们能用它做什么呢？

So I'm actually just going to go in and launch Khoya,

所以我实际上要推出Khoya,

an interactive app for the iPad.

一个iPad互动程序

So it says, "Place your fingers

它说，“将您的手指

upon each light."

放在每一个灯上”

And so --

然后--

(Music)

(音乐)

It says, "This box belongs to ... "

它说，“这个盒子属于...”

And so I type in my name.

所以我把我的名字输入进去

And actually I become a character in the book.

那我就成了这本书里的一个人物

At various points, a little letter drops down to me --

在不同的页面，一小封信掉下来给我--

and the iPad knows where you live because of GPS --

因为GPS, iPad知道你住在哪里

which is actually addressed to me.

标记给我的

The child in me is really excited

我的孩子那一面十分兴奋

by these kinds of possibilities.

因为这些各种各样的可能性

Now I've been talking a lot about magic.

现在我一直在谈论魔法

And I don't mean wizards and dragons,

并不是指巫婆和神龙，

I mean the kind of childhood magic,

而是指孩子们的魔法，

those ideas that we all harbored as children.

那些我们孩童时候心存的想法

This idea of fireflies in a jar, for some reason,

不知道为什么，萤火虫在坛子里的想法

was always really exciting to me.

常常令我十分兴奋

And so over here you need to tilt your iPad,

在这里你需要倾斜你的iPad,

take the fireflies out.

让这些萤火虫出来

And they actually illuminate your way through the rest of the book.

它们就可以照亮你的整本书

Another idea that really fascinated me as a child

另一个令人着迷的主意就是当我还是个孩子

was that an entire galaxy could be contained

整个银河系将被

within a single marble.

一块大理石包裹着

And so over here,

所以在这里

each book and each world

每一本书都

becomes a little marble

变成一个小的大理石

that I drag in

我将它们用这个装置

to this magical device within the device.

托进这个魔法的装置里面

And it opens up a map.

然后它打开一张地图

All along, all fantasy books have always had maps,

随之，所有神奇的书都有地图，

but these maps have been static.

但是这些地图一直是静止的

This is a map that grows and glows

这是一张地图变化并且发热

and becomes your navigation for the rest of the book.

成为你剩下这本书的导航

It reveals itself to you at certain points in the book as well.

在这本书的某处它也会显示出自己

So I'm just going to enter in.

所以我正准备进入

Another thing that's actually really important to me

另一个对我而言真的重要的事情就是

is creating content that is Indian

创造非常印度

and yet very contemporary.

却又非常现代的内容

Over here, these are the Apsaras.

在这里，这些是飞天

So we've all heard about fairies and we've all heard about nymphs,

我们都听说过仙女，听说过女神，

but how many people outside of India

但是有多少在印度之外的人

know about their Indian counterparts, the Apsaras?

知道关于她们的对应者，飞天？

These poor Apsaras have been trapped inside Indra's chambers for thousands of years

这些可怜的飞天被困在因陀罗的小屋子里数千年

in an old and musty book.

在一个古老的发霉的书中

And so we're bringing them back

因此我们将她们带回来

in a contemporary story for children.

带到和孩子们同时代的故事里

And a story that actually deals with new issues

一个解决新问题的故事，

like the environmental crisis.

如同环境危机

(Music)

(音乐）

Speaking of the environmental crisis,

谈起环境危机，

I think a big problem has been in the last 10 years

我觉得最近10年的一个最大的问题

is that children have been locked inside their rooms,

就是孩子们被关在他们的房间里，

glued to their PCs, they haven't been able to get out.

紧紧帖在他们的电脑上，他们不能出去

But now with mobile technology,

但是现在用移动式的科技，

we can actually take our children outside into the natural world

我们可以用科技

with their technology.

把我们的孩子领出去带到自然世界

One of the interactions in the book

在这本书中的一个互动就是

is that you're sent off on this quest

这个要求命令

where you need to go outside,

你需要去到外面世界，

take out your camera on the iPad

用你iPad上的相机

and collect pictures of different natural objects.

收集不同的自然物的照片

When I was a child, I had multiple collections

当我还是一个孩子，我有各种不同的收集

of sticks and stones and pebbles and shells.

如木条，石头，鹅卵石和贝壳

And somehow kids don't do that anymore.

不知道为什么孩子们不再收集了

So in bringing back this childhood ritual,

所以我把这个孩子时候的仪式带了回来，

you need to go out

你需要走出去

and, in one chapter, take a picture of a flower

在一个章节里，照一张花儿的照片

and then tag it.

然后给它标记命名

In another chapter, you need to take a picture of a piece of bark

在另一个章节里，你需要照一张树皮的照片

and then tag that.

然后标记它

And what happens

接下来发生的就是

is that you actually create a digital collection of photographs

你实际上创造了一个数码的相片的收集

that you can then put up online.

你可以把它放到网上

A child in London puts up a picture of a fox

一个在伦敦的孩子放上去了一张狐狸的照片

and says, "Oh, I saw a fox today."

说，“哦，我今天看到了一只狐狸”

A child in India says, "I saw a monkey today."

一个在印度的孩子说，“我今天看到了一只猴子”

And it creates this kind of social network

它创造出这样的一个社交网络，

around a collection of digital photographs

围绕着这样一个

that you've actually taken.

实际上是你照的数码相片的收集

In the possibilities of linking together

有了这些魔法

magic, the earth and technology,

地球和科技都联系起来的可能性

there are multiple possibilities.

这里就会有更多种多样的可能性

In the next book, we plan on having an interaction

在下本书中，我们计划一种互动

where you take your iPad out with the video on

你用iPad的视频

and through augmented reality,

通过增强现实，

you see this layer of animated pixies

你看这层是活泼乱动的精灵

appear on a houseplant that's outside your house.

出现在你房子外面的盆栽上

At one point, your screen is filled up with leaves.

在某一点上，你的屏幕上布满了树叶

And so you need to make the sound of wind and blow them away

所以你需要弄出风的声音将它们吹走

and read the rest of the book.

然后读书下面的部分

We're moving, we're all moving here,

我们在移动，移动到这里

to a world where the forces of nature

到一个自然的力量和科技变得越来越近

come closer together to technology,

的一个世界，

and magic and technology can come closer together.

魔法和科技可以走得更近

We're harnessing energy from the sun.

我们利用太阳的能量

We're bringing our children and ourselves

我们把我们的孩子和我们自己

closer to the natural world

和自然世界拉得更近

and that magic and joy

和我们

and childhood love that we had

通过一个简单的传媒故事

through the simple medium of a story.

带来魔法和愉快，以及孩童时候的爱

Thank you.

谢谢

(Applause)

(鼓掌）