歷年考研英語(yǔ)翻譯2001年

[00:03.37]2001 [00:06.20]In less than 30 years' time the Star Trek holodeck [00:09.53]will be a reality. [00:11.13]Direct links between the brain's nervous system [00:13.66]and a computer will also create full sensory virtual environments, [00:18.31]allowing virtual vacations like those in the film Total Recall. [00:22.55](1) [00:26.09]and cars with pollution monitors [00:28.07]that will disable them when they offend.> [00:30.90](2) [00:32.45]equipped with personality chips, [00:34.78]computers with in-built personalities [00:36.99]will be regarded as workmates rather than tools, [00:40.52]relaxation will be in front of smell-television, [00:43.84]and digital age will have arrived.> [00:46.88]According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, [00:50.77]these are among the developments [00:52.52]scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium [00:55.66](a period of 1 000 years), [00:57.87]when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress [01:01.00]in all areas of life. [01:03.12](3) [01:04.66]the work of hundreds of researchers around the world [01:07.38]to produce a unique millennium technology calendar [01:10.96]that gives the latest dates [01:12.58]when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs [01:15.10]and discoveries to take place.> [01:17.52]Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, [01:20.44]including an extended life expectancy [01:22.77]and dozens of artificial organs coming into use [01:25.80]between now and 2040. [01:28.22]Pearson also predicts [01:29.25]a breakthrough in computer-human links. [01:31.97]"By linking directly to our nervous system, [01:34.39]computers could pick up what we feel and, hopefully, [01:37.81]simulate feeling too [01:39.78]so that we can start to develop full sensory environments, [01:43.41]rather like the holidays in Total Recall [01:46.04]or the Star Trek holodeck," he says. [01:48.86](4) [01:50.77]is only the start of man-machine integration: [01:54.19]"It will be the beginning of the long process of integration [01:57.82]that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human [02:01.26]before the end of the next century."> [02:03.88]Through his research, [02:04.80]Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs [02:07.92]that can be predicted. [02:09.84]However, there are still no forecasts [02:11.85]for when faster-than-light travel will be available, [02:15.28]or when human cloning will be perfected, [02:17.90]or when time travel will be possible. [02:20.62]But he does expect social problems [02:22.92]as a result of technological advances. [02:25.74]A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, [02:28.97]for example, cause problems in 2010, [02:32.30]while the arrival of synthetic lifelike robots [02:35.12]will mean people may not be able to distinguish [02:37.84]between their human friends and the droids. [02:40.96](5) [02:44.09]that controlling and operating them [02:46.01]will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder [02:49.83]--kitchen rage.>

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