財富精英勵志演講 第54期:信息技術的力量(3)

[00:00:34]The trend in data storage is even more impressive. 數(shù)據(jù)存儲技術的發(fā)展趨勢更是令人瞠目。 [00:04:07]In the early 80s, the standard unit of computer storage, 八十年代初期，一個標準單位的計算機存儲能力， [00:08:43]one mega-byte, or one million bytes of information, cost about 100 dollars. 即 1MB，或者說 1 百萬字節(jié)，售價是 100 美元， [00:16:03]Today, it is 10 cents. In two years, it will cost 2 cents. 而現(xiàn)在卻只要 10 美分，兩年內還將降到 2 美分。 [00:24:15]These gains are driven by continuous advances in how we pack information into smaller and smaller spaces. 這種結果是在技術不斷進步的推動下產生的，我們可以把信息存儲到越來越小的空間。 [00:34:14]If the US Library of Congress could shrink its collections of 17 million books by the same factor we just discussed, 如果把這種技術用到美國國會圖書館的 1700 百萬冊存書上， [00:47:29]it could replace 800 kilometers of shelf space with less than 40 meters of space. 其書架長度將由 800 公里變成不到 40 米。 [01:00:03]These advances are going to continue and accelerate 這種進步將繼續(xù)下去，并且會加速 [01:03:47]the rate microprocessors, storage, communications, memory, and all the other engines that are propelling this industry 微處理器、存儲設備、通信、內存以及所有其它正在推動信息產業(yè)前進的“發(fā)動機”式的產品的發(fā)展， [01:12:30]or continue to lead to the products of the faster, smaller, and less expensive, just as they have for 30 years. 或者會繼續(xù)創(chuàng)造出更快、更小、更便宜的產品。過去 30 年的情況就是如此。 [01:21:36]But as we stand here today, the opening of CeBIT, we are on the threshold of a very important change and the evolution of this industry. 然而當我們今天站在這里，出席 CeBIT 的開幕式的時候，我們面對的是一場業(yè)界非常重要的變化和革命。 [01:38:20]In many ways, this industry, a very emitory industry, is about to play out in its most important dimension. 在很多方面，信息產業(yè)將成為最重要的產業(yè)。 [01:48:18]That is because the technology has become so powerful and so pervasive 這是因為信息技術已經(jīng)變得如此強大、如此普遍， [01:53:51]that its future impact on people and governments and all institutions will dwarf what has happened today. 以致于未來它對人們、政府和各個機構的影響將使目前發(fā)生的事相形見絀。

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