Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming

譯者: Kevin Hung 審譯者: Sean Chuang

My story begins right here actually in Rajasthan

我的故事實際上開始在拉賈斯坦

about two years ago.

大約在二年前

I was in the desert, under the starry skies

我在沙漠裡，在星空下

with the Sufi singer Mukhtiar Ali.

和蘇菲歌手 Mukhtiar Ali.

And we were in conversation

我們有一個談話

about how nothing had changed

關於沒有任何改變的現狀

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

自從古印度史詩“摩訶婆羅多”

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

在以前，當我們印度人想旅行

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

我們會跳上馬車，放大整個天空

Now we do the same with airplanes.

現在我們也用飛機這樣做

Back then,

當年

when Arjuna, the great Indian warrior prince,

當 Arjuna，印度偉大的戰士王子，

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

當他口渴時，他拿出一隻弓

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

他射向地面，而水湧了出來

Now we do the same

現在我們也這樣做

with drills and machines.

用鑽孔機和機器

The conclusion that we came to

我們得到一個結論

was that magic had been replaced

就是魔法被機器

by machinery.

取代了

And this made me really sad.

這讓我非常難過

I found myself becoming a little bit of a technophobe.

我發現自己變得有點"科技恐懼"

I was terrified by this idea

我被這個想法嚇壞了

that I would lose the ability

我失去了這個能力

to enjoy and appreciate the sunset

來享受和欣賞日落

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

在沒有相機在身上，沒有推特給我們的朋友們

And it felt like technology

這樣好像科技

should enable magic, not kill it.

應該是啟動魔法，而不是消滅他

When I was a little girl,

當我還是個小女孩

my grandfather gave me his little silver pocket watch.

我的祖父給我他的小銀色懷錶

And this piece of 50-year-old technology

這個有50年歲科技的東西

became the most magical thing to me.

對我而言變成最具有魔法的東西

It became a gilded gateway

他變成一個渡金的窗口

into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks

通向一個充滿海盜與沉船

and images in my imagination.

和影像在我的想像裡

So I felt like our cellphones

所以我感覺到我們的手機

and our fancy watches and our cameras

和我們花俏的手錶和我們的相機

had stopped us from dreaming.

已經讓我們停止作夢了

They stopped us from being inspired.

他們阻止了我們的靈感

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

所以我跳進去，跳進一個充滿科技的世界

to see how I could use it to enable magic

來看看我如何運用他來啟動魔法

as opposed to kill it.

而不是要消滅他

I've been illustrating books since I was 16.

從16歲我開始畫圖本

And so when I saw the iPad,

而現在當我看到 iPad

I saw it as a storytelling device

我認為他是一個說故事的裝置

that could connect readers all over the world.

他可以連接整個世界的讀者

It can know how we're holding it.

他知道我們如何握住他

It can know where we are.

他知道我們在那裡

It brings together image and text

他可以同時有圖畫與文字

and animation and sound and touch.

和動畫與聲音和觸控

Storytelling is becoming

說故事變成

more and more multi-sensorial.

愈來愈多的感官刺激

But what are we doing with it?

但我們能拿它做什麼？

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

所以我開始開發 柯亞

an interactive app for the iPad.

一個 iPad 上的互動式軟體

So it says, "Place your fingers

所以它說：把你的手指

upon each light."

放在每一個亮點上

And so --

然後

(Music)

(音樂)

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

它說：我個箱子屬於

And so I type in my name.

我打上我的名字

And actually I become a character in the book.

然後，我變成書本的一個角色

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

在不同點，一個小小字往下掉

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

而 iPad 知道你住那裡，因為 GPS

which is actually addressed to me.

知道我正確的位址

The child in me is really excited

我的小孩非常興奮

by these kinds of possibilities.

因為這些可能性

Now I've been talking a lot about magic.

現在我已講了關於魔法的事

And I don't mean wizards and dragons,

我並不是指精靈和龍

I mean the kind of childhood magic,

我是指一種童年的魔法

those ideas that we all harbored as children.

當我們還是孩子時所懷著的想法

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

因為某些原因，罐子裡的螢火蟲的想法

was always really exciting to me.

總是令我興奮

And so over here you need to tilt your iPad,

這裡你需要傾斜你的 iPad

take the fireflies out.

讓螢火蟲飛出來

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

他們真的會照亮你的路徑通過書的另一邊

Another idea that really fascinated me as a child

另一個想法在我是孩子時就已深深的著迷

was that an entire galaxy could be contained

整個星系可能是被一個

within a single marble.

彈珠所包圍

And so over here,

這裡的

each book and each world

每本書，每個世界

becomes a little marble

都變成一個小小的彈珠

that I drag in

我拖曳

to this magical device within the device.

到這個神奇的裝置

And it opens up a map.

它會開啟一張地圖

All along, all fantasy books have always had maps,

隨著所有的童話書都有地圖

but these maps have been static.

但這些地圖是靜態的

This is a map that grows and glows

這是一張會成長和發亮的地圖

and becomes your navigation for the rest of the book.

而且變成這本書其他部分的領航圖

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

它會向你揭示這本書上的某個特點

So I'm just going to enter in.

現在我將要進去看看

Another thing that's actually really important to me

另一件事真的是對我非常重要

is creating content that is Indian

就是在印度創作這些內容

and yet very contemporary.

還要具備現代感

Over here, these are the Apsaras.

這裡，這些是飛天

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

我們都聽過仙女，而且我們都聽過有關女神

but how many people outside of India

但有多少在印度以外的人

know about their Indian counterparts, the Apsaras?

知道有關他們印度相對應的人 ，飛天？

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

這些可憐的飛天，千百年來一直被困在因陀羅的房間內

in an old and musty book.

在一個古老的發霉的書

And so we're bringing them back

所以我們要把他們帶回

in a contemporary story for children.

在當代兒童的故事

And a story that actually deals with new issues

而一個故事，實際上涉及了新問題

like the environmental crisis.

像是環境危機

(Music)

(音樂)

Speaking of the environmental crisis,

說到環境的危機

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

我認為有一個大問題，在過去十年

is that children have been locked inside their rooms,

孩子們被鎖在他們的房間裡

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

被電腦給粘住了，他們無法走出來

But now with mobile technology,

但是現在的行動裝置科技

we can actually take our children outside into the natural world

我們可以運用他們的科技帶我們的孩子

with their technology.

走向真實的世界

One of the interactions in the book

本書其中的一個互動是

is that you're sent off on this quest

你發送這個任務

where you need to go outside,

你需要到外面去

take out your camera on the iPad

開啟你 iPad 上的相機

and collect pictures of different natural objects.

並收集不同的自然景色照片

When I was a child, I had multiple collections

當我還是個孩子，我有不同的蒐集

of sticks and stones and pebbles and shells.

木棍、石塊、鵝卵石和貝殼

And somehow kids don't do that anymore.

而現在的孩子都不做這些了

So in bringing back this childhood ritual,

所以帶回童年的儀式

you need to go out

你必須走出去

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

在第一章，要照一張花的照片

and then tag it.

然後標記

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

在另一章，你需要照一張一塊樹皮的相片

and then tag that.

然後標記

And what happens

發生了什麼事

is that you actually create a digital collection of photographs

實際上你做了一本數位相簿

that you can then put up online.

你可以放在網路上

A child in London puts up a picture of a fox

一個倫敦的孩子放了狐狸的相片

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

並說："啊，我今天看到一隻狐狸"

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

一個印度的孩子說："我今天看到一隻猴子"

And it creates this kind of social network

它創造了這樣的社群網路

around a collection of digital photographs

由數位相片所圍繞而成

that you've actually taken.

那是你親自照的

In the possibilities of linking together

在連接這些魔法和地球

magic, the earth and technology,

及科技的可能

there are multiple possibilities.

有太多的可能性

In the next book, we plan on having an interaction

在下一本書，我們計畫有一個互動

where you take your iPad out with the video on

把你的 iPad 視頻打開

and through augmented reality,

透過這些現實

you see this layer of animated pixies

你看到這一層的動畫

appear on a houseplant that's outside your house.

室內盆栽出現在你的房子外面

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

這時，你的螢幕充滿了葉子

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

你需要發出風的聲音將他們吹開

and read the rest of the book.

然後才能繼續閱讀本書

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

我們感動，我們這裡的每個人

to a world where the forces of nature

都感動到大自然的力量

come closer together to technology,

與科技緊密的結合

and magic and technology can come closer together.

而魔法與科技可以緊密的結合

We're harnessing energy from the sun.

我們利用來自太陽的能量

We're bringing our children and ourselves

我們帶領我們的孩子和我們自己

closer to the natural world

更接近大自然

and that magic and joy

魔法和喜悅

and childhood love that we had

讓孩子們透過一個簡單的故事

through the simple medium of a story.

喜愛我們所擁有的各種事物

Thank you.

謝謝

(Applause)

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