TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(9)
There are also things, quite uncanny, which bring me information that will help me in the writing of the book. 除此以外，还有一些离奇的事件在写作时为我带来了不同的写作资料。 In this case, I was writing a story that incl
TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(10)
A big thing that I also think about is accidents. 我也时常想到意外。 And as I said, my mother did not believe in randomness. What is the nature of accidents? 如我所说，我母亲从不相信偶然。那意外又是什么？ And how are w
TED演讲:创意隐藏在哪里(11)
So I remained with them, and the more I wrote that story, the more I got into those beliefs, 所以我决定留下来和他们一起，我写的越多，我便越相信这些信仰， and I think that's important for me -- to take on the beliefs, bec
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(1)
Imagine that when you walked in here this evening, 想象一下当你在今晚步入这里时， you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking. 你发现所有在场的人看上去
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(2)
But that's getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth. 但这样的机会已经越来越少了，因为城市正在变得光滑。 New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(3)
Let me give you an example of how a city's surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。 When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza Mayor at all hours
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(4)
So one contemporary equivalent of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is the Place de la Dfense in Paris, 说一个与萨拉曼卡的马约尔广场相较衡的现代广场，巴黎的协和广场， a windswept, glass-walled open space that office workers
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(5)
Now, I'm not against glass. It's an ancient and versatile material. 我并不是反对使用玻璃。玻璃毕竟是一种古老且通用性强的材料。 It's easy to manufacture and transport and install and replace and clean. 它们易于大量生产
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(6)
But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(7)
But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale. 但事实是这些往往都只是个例，精品工程没办法轻易的在全球范围内普及。 And that is the point. When you use mater
TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(8)
The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, Ennead公司用铜和锌包裹了位于盐湖城的犹他自然历史博物馆， ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage
TED演讲:一个能防止人群踩踏事件的救生发明(1)
I was only nine when my grandfather first described to me the horrors he witnessed six years earlier 我9岁那年，祖父第一次向我讲述了那场他6年前见证的恐怖意外事件， when human stampedes killed 39 people in our hometown of
TED演讲:一个能防止人群踩踏事件的救生发明(2)
It seemed like a mission impossible, a dream too big, especially for a 15-year-old, yet that dream came true in 2015, 这看起来像不可能完成的任务，完全是异想天开，尤其对于一个15岁的人来讲，但梦想在2015年成真了，
TED演讲:一个能防止人群踩踏事件的救生发明(3)
So we built Ashioto, meaning footstep in Japanese, 所以我们构建了Ashioto系统，在日语中意思是脚步声， as it consists of a portable mat which has pressure sensors which can count the number of people walking on it, 这种垫子便携
TED演讲:一个能防止人群踩踏事件的救生发明(4)
So we decided to design a cover for the sensor so that people don't have to worry what it is on the ground. 所以我们决定给传感器加个盖板，这样人们就不用担心放在地上的是什么了。 So after some experimentation, we decid
