演講MP3+雙語文稿:快節(jié)奏的世界會帶來哪些后果？
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【演講人及介紹】Kathryn Bouskill
人類學家，社會科學家凱思琳·布斯基爾（Kathryn Bouskill）的工作探索了我們的健康如何被我們的生物學以及行為和文化背景所塑造。
【演講主題】快節(jié)奏的世界帶來的不可預見的后果
【演講文稿-中英文】
翻譯者 Lipeng Chen 校對 Jiasi Hao
00:12
Do you ever wonder why we're surroundedwith things that help us do everything faster and faster and faster?Communicate faster, but also work faster, bank faster, travel faster, find adate faster, cook faster, clean faster and do all of it all at the same time?How do you feel about cramming even more into every waking hour?
你們有沒有想過，為什么我們身邊的東西總是讓我們的行動變得越來越快，越快越快？更快的溝通，還有更快的工作，更快的交易，更快的旅行，更快的約會，更快的做飯，更快的清潔，甚至同時做很多事情？在每一個清醒的小時里面塞進更多的東西，你們是什么感覺？
00:38
Well, to my generation of Americans, speedfeels like a birthright. Sometimes I think our minimum speed is Mach 3.Anything less, and we fear losing our competitive edge. But even my generationis starting to question whether we're the masters of speed or if speed ismastering us.
對于我這一代美國人來說，速度就像是與生俱來的權(quán)利。有時，我覺得我們的最低速度就是 3 馬赫（3 倍音速，形容速度很快）。如果慢一點，我們就會擔心失去我們的競爭優(yōu)勢。但是，甚至我這一代也開始反問到底我們是速度的主人，還是速度在主宰著我們。
00:59
I'm an anthropologist at the RandCorporation, and while many anthropologists study ancient cultures, I focus onmodern day cultures and how we're adapting to all of this change happening inthe world. Recently, I teamed up with an engineer, Seifu Chonde, to studyspeed. We were interested both in how people are adapting to this age ofacceleration and its security and policy implications. What could our worldlook like in 25 years if the current pace of change keeps accelerating? Whatwould it mean for transportation, or learning, communication, manufacturing,weaponry or even natural selection? Will a faster future make us more secureand productive? Or will it make us more vulnerable?
我是蘭德公司的一名人類學家，盡管許多人類學家研究古代文化，而我研究的是當代文化，以及我們?nèi)绾芜m應現(xiàn)在世界上正在發(fā)生的諸多變化。最近，我和工程師賽孚· 康德 在一起研究速度。我們對人類如何適應 這個加速的時代 以及它的安全性 和政策建議非常感興趣。如果現(xiàn)在改變的步伐持續(xù)加速，那么我們的世界在 25 年后會變成什么樣子？對于交通，或是學習、通訊、制造、武器、甚至是自然選擇來說，這意味著什么？一個更快的未來會讓我們更安全、更有生產(chǎn)力嗎？還是會讓我們更脆弱？
01:47
In our research, people acceptedacceleration as inevitable, both the thrills and the lack of control. They fearthat if they were to slow down, they might run the risk of becoming obsolete.They say they'd rather burn out than rust out. Yet at the same time, they worrythat speed could erode their cultural traditions and their sense of home. Buteven people who are winning at the speed game admit to feeling a little uneasy.They see acceleration as widening the gap between the haves, the jet-setterswho are buzzing around, and the have-nots, who are left in the digital dust.
在我們的研究中，人們接受加速并將其視為不可避免的，既興奮，但又有失控之感。他們害怕如果他們慢下來了，就會面臨被淘汰的風險。他們說他們寧愿累死也不愿意被淘汰。然而，在同時，他們擔心速度會侵蝕他們的文化傳統(tǒng) 以及家庭觀念。但甚至是那些贏得了 速度賽跑的人們 也承認他們感到一絲不安。他們認為這種加速擴大了 那些坐私人飛機四處環(huán)游的富人 和那些被覆蓋在 電子塵埃中的窮人之間的差距。
02:24
Yes, we have good reason to forecast thatthe future will be faster, but what I've come to realize is that speed isparadoxical, and like all good paradoxes, it teaches us about the human experience,as absurd and complex as it is.
是的，我們有很好的理由預測將來會變得更快，但是我逐漸意識到速度這個概念是充滿矛盾的，就像所有好的矛盾體一樣，它教會我們?nèi)祟愖陨淼慕?jīng)歷既荒謬又復雜。
02:41
The first paradox is that we love speed,and we're thrilled by its intensity. But our prehistoric brains aren't reallybuilt for it, so we invent roller coasters and race cars and supersonic planes,but we get whiplash, carsick, jet-lagged. We didn't evolve to multitask.Rather, we evolved to do one thing with incredible focus, like hunt -- notnecessarily with great speed but with endurance for great distance. But nowthere's a widening gap between our biology and our lifestyles, a mismatchbetween what our bodies are built for and what we're making them do. It's aphenomenon my mentors have called "Stone Agers in the fast lane."
第一個矛盾是我們喜歡速度，它的強度讓我們興奮。但是我們史前形成的大腦并不是為此而生的，所以我們發(fā)明出過山車、賽車和超音速飛機，但我們又面臨著頸椎受損、暈車或是時差問題。我們進化不是為了多線程工作。相反，我們進化是為了用超常的專注去做一件事情，就像是狩獵——靠的不一定是速度，而是長途跋涉的耐力。但如今，我們的生理和生活方式之間出現(xiàn)了一條鴻溝，我們身體的設計初衷與我們讓身體所做的事情出現(xiàn)了錯配。我的導師將這種現(xiàn)象稱作“快車道上的石器時代人?！?
03:26
(Laughter)
（笑聲）
03:28
A second paradox of speed is that it can bemeasured objectively. Right? Miles per hour, gigabytes per second. But howspeed feels, and whether we like it, is highly subjective. So we can documentthat the pace at which we are adopting new technologies is increasing. Forexample, it took 85 years from the introduction of the telephone to when themajority of Americans had phones at home. In contrast, it only took 13 yearsfor most of us to have smartphones. And how people act and react to speedvaries by culture and among different people within the same culture.Interactions that could be seen as pleasantly brisk and convenient in somecultures could be seen as horribly rude in others. I mean, you wouldn't goasking for a to-go cup at a Japanese tea ceremony so you could jet off to yournext tourist stop. Would you?
第二個關于速度的矛盾在于速度是用客觀標準來衡量的。對吧？每小時幾英里，每秒多少千兆字節(jié)。但是對于速度的感知，以及我們是否喜歡速度，都是高度主觀的。我們的文件記錄到：我們采用新技術(shù)的速度正在加快。例如，從電話問世到大多數(shù)美國家庭擁有電話花了 85 年的時間。相反，我們中大部分擁有智能手機只花了 13 年的時間。人們?nèi)绾螒獙@種速度對于不同文化，以及對于同一文化中的不同人來說都存在差異。在某些文化中被視為輕松活躍的互動可能在某些文化看來是相當粗魯?shù)?。我想說的是，你不會在日本茶道儀式上要一杯外帶的茶，以便趕快到達下一個旅游景點吧。你會這么做嗎？
04:23
A third paradox is that speed begets speed.The faster I respond, the more responses I get, the faster I have to respondagain. Having more communication and information at our fingertips at any givenmoment was supposed to make decision-making easier and more rational. But thatdoesn't really seem to be happening.
第三個矛盾是速度導致速度。我回復得越快，我得到的回復就越多，于是我不得不回復得更快。在任何一個時刻，我們手頭正在進行的更多交流和獲得的更多信息本應是讓決策更加容易、更加理性。但是看起來事實并非如此。
04:47
Here's just one more paradox: If all ofthese faster technologies were supposed to free us from drudgery, why do we allfeel so pressed for time? Why are we crashing our cars in record numbers,because we think we have to answer that text right away? Shouldn't life in thefast lane feel a little more fun and a little less anxious? German speakerseven have a word for this: "Eilkrankheit." In English, that's"hurry sickness." When we have to make fast decisions, autopilotbrain kicks in, and we rely on our learned behaviors, our reflexes, ourcognitive biases, to help us perceive and respond quickly. Sometimes that savesour lives, right? Fight or flight. But sometimes, it leads us astray in thelong run.
還有另一個矛盾：如果所有這些更快的科技本應讓我們免于苦差，為什么我們總是覺得時間如此緊迫？為什么我們不斷刷新車禍數(shù)字，只因我們覺得我們必須馬上回復消息？在快車道的生活不是應該更多一些樂趣，更少一些焦慮嗎？德語中甚至有一個詞來形容這種現(xiàn)象：“Eilkrankheit”。翻譯過來，就是“速度不適感”。當我們不得不快速做出決定時，自控式的大腦開始運作，我們依賴于我們習得的行為、反射，以及認知偏差，來幫助我們快速感知并反應。有時這可以救命，對吧？要么戰(zhàn)斗，要么逃跑。但有時，這會在長期讓我們陷入迷途。
05:41
Oftentimes, when our society has majorfailures, they're not technological failures. They're failures that happen whenwe made decisions too quickly on autopilot. We didn't do the creative orcritical thinking required to connect the dots or weed out false information ormake sense of complexity. That kind of thinking can't be done fast. That's slowthinking. Two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, started pointingthis out back in 1974, and we're still struggling to do something with theirinsights.
很多時候，我們的社會出現(xiàn)的嚴重問題 并不是技術(shù)性失誤，而是當我們依賴反射 快速做出決定時 而造成的錯誤。我們沒有進行必要的 創(chuàng)造性或批判性思考，連接信息節(jié)點，濾除錯誤信息，厘清復雜狀況。這種思考模式是不能快速完成的。這是慢思考。兩位心理學家，丹尼爾· 卡尼曼 和阿莫斯 · 特沃斯基 在 1974 年就指出了這一點，而我們?nèi)栽谒麄兊亩匆娤聮暝?/p>
06:19
All of modern history can be thought of asone spurt of acceleration after another. It's as if we think if we just speedup enough, we can outrun our problems. But we never do. We know this in our ownlives, and policymakers know it, too. So now we're turning to artificialintelligence to help us make faster and smarter decisions to process thisever-expanding universe of data. But machines crunching data are no substitutefor critical and sustained thinking by humans, whose Stone Age brains need alittle time to let their impulses subside, to slow the mind and let thethoughts flow.
整段當代歷史都可以被視為一場接一場的加速。就好像是我們覺得只要我們的速度夠快，我們的問題就可以迎刃而解。但事實從來不是這樣的。我們從自己的生活中領悟到這一點，政策制定者也知道這一點。如今，我們正寄希望于人工智能幫助我們做出更快、更聰明的決策，來處理這體量不斷擴大的數(shù)據(jù)。但是依靠機器分析數(shù)據(jù)并非是人類進行批判性和可持續(xù)思考 的替代品，我們的石器時代大腦 需要一些時間來平息沖動，來放慢思考，來讓思想發(fā)展。
07:01
If you're starting to think that we shouldjust hit the brakes, that won't always be the right solution. We all know thata train that's going too fast around a bend can derail, but Seifu, theengineer, taught me that a train that's going too slowly around a bend can alsoderail.
如果你開始考慮——我們就應該立即停下腳步，這并不總是正確的解決方案。我們都知道在彎道處開得太快的火車會脫軌，但是工程師賽孚告訴我在彎道 開得太慢的火車也會脫軌。
07:18
So managing this spurt of accelerationstarts with the understanding that we have more control over speed than wethink we do, individually and as a society. Sometimes, we'll need to engineerourselves to go faster. We'll want to solve gridlock, speed up disaster relieffor hurricane victims or use 3-D printing to produce what we need on the spot,just when we need it. Sometimes, though, we'll want to make our surroundingsfeel slower to engineer the crash out of the speedy experience. And it's OK notto be stimulated all the time. It's good for adults and for kids. Maybe it'sboring, but it gives us time to reflect. Slow time is not wasted time.
所以要掌控這種加速度，需要從一個正確的認識開始——我們對速度的控制能力超乎想象，不論是個體還是整個社會。有時，我們需要工程師更快一點。我們想要解決交通堵塞問題，加快颶風災民的災后安置，或僅僅在我們需要某個東西的時候利用 3D 打印現(xiàn)場生產(chǎn)。但有時，我們卻想讓周遭慢下來，處理速度帶來的雜亂無章。我們完全可以不用時時刻刻都緊繃著。這對成人還有兒童來說都很好。也許這很無聊，但是這給了我們時間去反思。放慢速度不是浪費時間。
08:08
And we need to reconsider what it means tosave time. Culture and rituals around the world build in slowness, becauseslowness helps us reinforce our shared values and connect. And connection is acritical part of being human. We need to master speed, and that means thinkingcarefully about the trade-offs of any given technology. Will it help youreclaim time that you can use to express your humanity? Will it give you hurrysickness? Will it give other people hurry sickness? If you're lucky enough todecide the pace that you want to travel through life, it's a privilege. Use it.You might decide that you need both to speed up and to create slow time: timeto reflect, to percolate at your own pace; time to listen, to empathize, torest your mind, to linger at the dinner table.
我們也需要重新思考節(jié)約時間究竟意味著什么。全世界的文化和習俗都在慢速中成型，因為放慢腳步能幫助我們加強我們的共同價值和聯(lián)結(jié)，而且聯(lián)結(jié)是人之所以為人的一個關鍵部分。我們需要成為速度的主人，這意味著仔細思考使用任何科技的權(quán)衡。這種科技會幫助你奪回可用來表達人性的時間嗎？會給你造成速度不適感嗎？會給他人帶去速度不適感嗎？如果你足夠幸運，就可以決定你生活的步調(diào)，這是一種特權(quán)。要充分利用好它。你也許會決定既要加速，也要減速：放慢腳步來反思，來沉淀，來傾聽，來共情，放空大腦，逗留于餐桌邊。
09:09
So as we zoom into the future, let'sconsider setting the technologies of speed, the purpose of speed and ourexpectations of speed to a more human pace.
所以當我們展望未來時，讓我們試著將速度背后的技術(shù)、速度的目的，以及我們對速度的期望變得更加符合人的步伐吧！
09:22
Thank you.
謝謝。
09:23
(Applause)
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