TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(3)
Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, 后来的一个星期六,我们去Fide的村庄拜访, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made. 她的母亲向我们展示了一个精
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(4)
I must say that before I went to the U.S., I didn't consciously identify as African. 我不得不强调,在我前往美国之前,我从来没有有意识地把自己当作个非洲人。 But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(5)
Now, I've laughed every time I've read this. And one must admire the imagination of John Lok. 我每次读到这一段的时候,都不禁大笑起来。John Locke的想象力真的是让人敬佩。 But what is important about his writing is that i
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(6)
I remember walking around on my first day in Guadalajara, 我还记得当我到达瓜达拉哈拉的第一天, watching the people going to work, rolling up tortillas in the marketplace, smoking, laughing. 看着人们前往工作,在市集上吃着
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(7)
The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, 巴勒斯坦诗人Mourid Barghouti曾经写到:如果你想剥夺一群人的权利, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, secondl
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(8)
When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, 当我多年前听说作家们必须有极其不幸的童年才能取得成功的时候, I began to think about how I could invent ho
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(9)
Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes: 当然了,非洲大陆充满了灾难: There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo and depressing ones, 有的灾难,比如刚果猖獗的强奸,是无比巨大的; such
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(10)
Shortly after he published my first novel, I went to a TV station in Lagos to do an interview, 在他发布了我的第一部小说的不久后,我前往拉各斯的一家电视台接受访问, and a woman who worked there as a messenger came up
TED演讲:单一故事的危险性(11)
Every time I am home I am confronted with the usual sources of irritation for most Nigerians: our failed infrastructure, our failed government, 我每次回家的时候,都会面临那些令众多尼日利亚人头疼的事情:失败的基础设施
TED演讲:演示'第六感'(1)
I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense 有一个问题我思考了很久,就是我们能否进化出一种第六感官。 a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-informati
TED演讲:演示'第六感'(2)
I'm wearing a camera, just a simple web cam, a portable, battery-powered projection system with a little mirror. 我佩戴着一个相机,就是一个简单的网络摄像头,一个便携的用电池供电的投影仪和一个小镜子。 These c
TED演讲:演示'第六感'(3)
So, some of you most likely were here two years ago and saw the demo by Jeff Han, 你们当中有些人两年前在这里应该看过Jeff Han演示微软的Surface系统, or some of you may think, Well, doesn't this look like the Microsoft Surface
TED演讲:演示'第六感'(4)
So we see Pranav here going into the supermarket and he's shopping for some paper towels. 我们看到Pranav现在去了超市,他打算买一些纸巾。 And, as he picks up a product, the system can recognize the product that he's picking up, usi
TED演讲:演示'第六感'(5)
You can get video annotations of the events that you're reading about. 你可以看到事件的视频报道。 You can get the latest sports scores, etc. This is a more controversial one. 你可以看到体育比赛的最及时的比分,等等。接下
TED演讲:内向性格的力量(1)
When I was nine years old, I went off to summer camp for the first time. 当我九岁的时候,我第一次去参加夏令营。 And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do. 我妈妈帮我