covid-19 正在迫使科技迅速前进
-There's a less familiar story about COVID-19.
-关于新冠病毒有一个鲜为人知的事情。
-The crisis is boosting innovation,with the emergence of brand new ideas.
-这次疫情推动了科技创新，因为疫情期间涌现了很多崭新的想法。
mRNA vaccine,a new technology
mRNA疫苗，新科技中的一项。
-And with the application of existing ones in surprising new ways.
-同时，现有科技的应用也正以崭新的方式出现在大家面前。
The crisis has caused an acceleration in adoption of technology.
此次疫情加速了人们对科技的应用。
-This is pushing the world further into the future.
-这将世界进一步推向未来。
We've had to build more airplanes and we ever have before.
我们不得不制造比以往更多的飞机。
-Often a breakneck speed.（听不太清我猜的）
-通常以惊人的速度。
We just passed on 250 million pounds.（听不太清我猜的）
我们刚刚转账了2.5亿英镑。
-Businesses are being forced to adapt.
-企业正被迫适应。
Well. 你好。
Oh,thank you,amazing.喔，谢谢您，真好。
-Or face extinction.
-否则将面临倒闭。
Another hammer blow to britain's retail sector.
这是对英国零售业的又一次沉重打击。
-This upsurge of innovation will bring lasting change for good and bad.
-这一创新热潮将带来持久的变革，有好也有坏。
Could you get into your computer? ......
你能玩电脑吗？...不能。
This is my kid's future.
这是我孩子的未来。
-So what lessons can be learned as the world looks towards the post pandemic era?
-那么我们能在世界展望疫情后时代的时候，学到什么呢？
There is an opportunity for innovation to stay at the cutting edge.
创新有机会保持在前沿。
How COVID-19 is boosting innovation 新冠疫情如何推动创新
I haven't seen this.Is this a new piece?
我没见过这个。这是新的吗？
what is this part?
这是啥？
This is the front of the fuse.
这是保险丝的前部。
Got it.
明白了。
-This is the headquarters of Zipline,a drone manufacturing company.
-这里是Zipline的总部，一个无人机制造公司。
This is 3D printed?yeah.
这是3D打印的？是的。
Oh,this is plastic now,yeah.
喔，这是塑料的，嗯没错。
Oh yeah,totally.
喔是的，完全没错。
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-Since the pandemic,the business has really taken off.
-自疫情以来，他的业务开始步入正轨。
-Drone technology has been around for a while.
-无人机技术已经存在了一段时间。
-But during the pandemic,it's starting to realize its considerable potential.
-但在疫情期间，才开始意识到其巨大的潜力。
-With social distancing the new normal,hell systems around the world are now looking at drones as a new and better way to deliver products,such as blood,cancer treatments and vaccines.
-因为社会距离有了新常态，全世界的医疗系统都在研究无人机，作为交付产品更好的新方式，例如血、癌症特效药和疫苗。
Every hospital system and health system on earth is suddenly trying to reconfigure itself ,to a new reality to extend the reach of the hospital system directly into the home,enabling care closer to where patients live,so they have to travel less.
地球上的每个医院系统和卫生系统突然间都要学会适应新的环境，扩大医院系统的覆盖面至家中，让护理更接近患者居住的地方。所以他们必须减少流动。
It's more convenient and the patient takes less risk of getting infected if they need to access general care.
如果病人需要获得综合护理，这更方便，而且感染的风险更小。
-From Mid June to September 2020,Zipline delivered more than 100,000 medical products,as many as over the previous three years.
-从2020年6月中旬至9月，Zipline提供了超过100,000种医疗产品，和前三年的总量一样多。
And we've done a few things that center wing covers are now.
我们做了一些事情，现在它有了一套翼盖。
When did that change?
这是什么时候改变的？
Weeks ago.
几周前。
-Perhaps the most significant change has come in countries with strict airspace laws.
-或许最重大的变化发生在了具备严格航空法的国家。
-In May 2020,an emergency license was issued in America,allowing Zipline to fly long range delivery drones through controlled air space for the first time,and in December,American regulators issued new rules,allowing drones to fly over people under night.
-2020年5月，美国发行了紧急许可证，首次允许Zipline公司在管制空域试飞远程运输无人机，而在12月，美国监管机构颁布了新的规定，允许无人机在夜间飞过人群上空。
-This looser approach is accelerating the shift towards more states receiving medical supplies,in a more efficient and productive way
-这种更宽松的方式，促进了更多国家以更高效、更具生产力的方式，接收医疗物资。
We're seeing hospital systems that previously thought they had 10 years to affect this kind of change,now trying to do this in one year.
我们见证了医院系统，之前认为他们需要十年时间来做到这种改变，现在仅仅用了一年就做到了。
-Although drone filled skies are some way off,COVID-19 has also accelerated the conversation around the use of drones beyond healthcare,in a variety of new fields.
-虽然天空中都是无人机的梦想离我们还有一段距离，新冠疫情确实加速了这个进程，不仅在医疗保健之外使用无人机，还将其应用于许多新领域。
??????（完全听不清...什么papiethere什么的）
我要把这个拿出来。
-Zipline has partnered with retail giant Walmart.
-Zipline与零售巨头沃尔玛合作。
-It's one of a number of companies due to begin trial deliveries of consumer products.
-它是既定开始试运输消费者产品的公司之一。
I think it's been really easy for people to understand the value and there's a pretty intense sense of civic pride around the country leading the way in terms of showing how this new technology can save lives.
我认为人们很容易理解这其中的意义，他们还有一种强烈的公民自豪感，因为自己的国家率先展示了这项新技术如何拯救生命。
-This kind of rapid adoption of emerging technologies has been called tech acceleration.
-这种对新兴技术的快速运用被称为“技术加速”
速度是出神的形式，这是技术革命送给人的礼物。——《慢》
-And it's the type of innovation that has been given the biggest boost around the world by the pandemic.
-正是这种创新，在全球范围疫情中发挥了最大的推动作用。
A classic example of tech acceleration was what happened in the national health service in England where a system to make possible video calling was effectively built over a weekend and then rolled out to doctors across the country.
这里有一个典型的技术加速的例子，那是一件发生在英国国家卫生局的事，卫生局一个周末就有效地建立了一个可以视频通话的系统，然后向全国各地的医生推广。
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-Text acceleration is pushing companies further and faster into the future.
-科技飞速发展，正推动公司迈向更远更快的未来。
Exactly how many years into the future we've been pushed by this crisis.
未来的几年里，我们究竟被这场危机推到了什么程度，这不好说。
？ it depends on the behavior,it depends on the country.（第一个词听不清我猜的）
这取决于我们的行为，取决于国家。
But it does seem to be sort of all for the order of five years.
但看起来有点像需要五年的样子。
So welcome to 2025.
所以我们一起来期待下2025年吧。
-History shows that innovation often thrives during times of crisis.
-历史表明，创新往往在危机时期蓬勃发展。
-Take the financial crash of 2008,which led to the widespread adoption of cloud computing.
-以2008年的金融危机为例，它加速了云计算的广泛运用。
-The cloud had been around since the early two thousands,but it gained a new footing as the economic slowdown took hold
-云数据在21世纪初就已经出现了，但因为当时经济放缓，它获得了一个新的立足点。
Companies were very often reluctant to try cloud computing.
公司通常不愿意尝试云计算。
They thought it wasn't secure and then they gave it a try,found it was cheaper found it was more secure and cloud computing has expanded very rapidly.
他们觉得不安全，然后他们试了一下，发现它既便宜又安全，然后云计算就开始快速被应用起来。
-As well as accelerating the adoption of developing technologies,crises can also foster the development of entirely new ideas.
-除了加速正在发展科技的应用外，危急时刻也能促进全新思想的出现。
A good example of a crisis that led to lots of invention would be the second world war.
二战就是危机促进大量发明的好例子。
So you get the first digital computers which you use for code braking,you get the first jet engines that paves the way for mass air travel,you get nuclear technology which is used for weapons,but can also be used to generate energy,and you also get the first rockets.
当时人们发明了第一台电子计算机用来破译代码；发明了第一个喷气发电机，为大众航空旅行奠定了基础；发明了核技术，可以用来制造武器，但也可以用来发电；人们还发明了第一支火箭。
-When it comes to new ideas,COVID-19 has left his mark in the field of medicine where researchers around the world have pioneered new techniques in the development of vaccines.
-谈到新的想法的时候，新冠病毒在医学领域留下了印记。全世界研究人员奋力发明新技术，研发疫苗。
This phenomenal work has been done multiple teams producing vaccines in months rather than years,using entirely new technologies in some cases,so these mRNA vaccines are a new type of vaccine and they seem to work extremely well,so that's very impressive example of invention
这项惊人的工作已经完成了，很多团队在短短几个月而不是几年就发明了疫苗。一些情况下运用了全新的技术，mRNA疫苗就是一种新的疫苗，他们发挥的效用非常大这是关于发明的令人印象深刻的例子。
We are collectively telling cafes pubs bars and restaurants to close.
我们集体要求咖啡馆、酒吧和餐馆关门。
-In most industries,the pandemic is boosted innovation by forcing companies to adopt new ways of doing things,purely as a matter of survival.
-大部分行业，疫情都促进了它们创新。因为疫情条件下各个行业都要寻求新的方式营业，只为不被淘汰。
We have innovated it from necessity.
我们必须创新。
-Even for Michelin Star restaurant owner David Moore.
-即使是米其林星级餐厅的老板，大卫摩尔，也要创新。
-Lockdown forced him to place 90% of his staff on furlough.
-封锁迫使他让90%的员工休假。
-An emergency government scheme that pays the wages of workers.
-这是一项支付工人工资的紧急政府计划。
For the business it meant we had no income.
我们的生意完全没有收入。
I had thought that maybe we wouldn't be able to get back doing what we did before.
我之前想过，也许我们不能做我们之前做的业务了。
-So to save his business,David adopted something once unthinkable in the rarified world of fine dining.
-为了挽救自己的生意，大卫采用了在高档餐厅，让人意想不到的方法。
-A takeaway.
-他决定做外卖餐。
-The restaurant turned this into this.
-餐厅由这种模式变成了这样。
Oh,thank you,amazing.
喔，谢谢，真好。
-A heat at home Michelin Star ready meal.
-一顿热腾腾的米其林星级外卖。
-Now the restaurant's vegan box has proven so popular,it has been rolled out nationwide.
-现在，餐厅的素食盒非常受欢迎，已经在全国推广。
I definitely see online as something that is staying with us.
我肯定会把网络看作是一种与我们同在的东西。
It's totally invigorated the business.
是网络使生意完全兴隆起来。
-As businesses throughout the hospitality industry have been forced to adapt,the pandemic has fueled a rapid growth of the meal delivery industry.
-由于整个餐饮业都被迫适应，疫情推动了外卖经济的快速增长。
-Globally the total revenue of this industry is now expected to reach $182,000,000,000 by 2024,an increase of more than a third from the projected level in 2020.
-全球范围内，这个行业的总收入，预计到2024年将达到1820亿美元，比2020年的预计水平增加了三分之一以上。
-When the pandemic recedes,the inevitive mindset many businesses have been forced to embrace,look set to linger.
-疫情消退时，许多企业不得不接受的创新思维方式，看起来会持续下去。
-For david,the unexpected success of his food delivery service,points to a hybrid model for the future,one that will allow his chefs to continue to innovate in the kitchen.
-对大卫来说，送餐服务的意外成功，这一现象也会对其未来的营业模式产生影响，一种可以让他的厨师在厨房继续创作的模式。
Home delivery is not going to finish fine dining.
送餐上门不会影响美食的口感。
Fine dining is here this day.
美味的餐品还是美味的。
People want to be looked after.
人们想要被关照的感觉。
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They want the crisp linen and they want the waiters looking after them and they want no washing up afterwards
but while the pandemic has made innovation and necessity for some companies
it is also restricted opportunities for others
amidst the huge economic downturn
companies have been consolidating
the third quarter of 2020 was the busiest for mergers and acquisitions in three decades
a trend that is likely to tilt resources for new thinking and new ideas further towards big companies
by and large big companies can continue to invest
in difficult times
they can continue to take market share in a way that small companies can't
and so generally this is leading to a sort of greater inequality between companies
it's a sort of big gets bigger phenomenon
there are parts of america
you can only scout if you come in here
your international harvester dealer show
history also suggests that successful companies tend to start life more often in a good times than the bad
of the biggest american firms founded since 1970,more than 80 % were born during eras of growth
during economic downturns,life can be much harder for startups,which are so often the engines of innovation
but back in the booming world of online food delivery
some startups have found hungry investors
so we disclosed 250 million pounds
we just closed 250 million pounds
sisters ginny and ecky newton run karma kitchen
it's a startup that offers flexible kitchen space,known as ghost kitchens,to cooks and restaurants,catering mainly to the delivery market
while some ghost kitchens are owned by a single restaurant,chain karma kitchen has many different companies hot stationing under one roof
producing everything from west african doughnuts
to tandori curries
the company was founded two years ago
and the pandemic has transformed its fortunes
what would have taken us,potentially three years to achieve
it has now taken eight months in terms of market demand
the startup has recently opened its 2nd ghost kitchen in London
and it has another five sites under construction
it plans to build many more ghost kitchens in residential and office hotspots across europe
we want to open 60 kitchen facilities and that starts for us with the funding
the ambition of fast growing startups like karma kitchen can attract investors,but it can also end with a start up selling itself to a larger company with deeper pockets,and that brings its own risks
received from research on mergers and acquisitions
when an acquisition happens,the innovativeness of that small firm typically goes down
the question really is whether large
conglomerates will be able to feel these startups in order for them to carry the front in terms of innovation and for that innovation to then be disseminated
into the rest of the organization for many large and small companies
working from
home has been the most significant innovation to come out of the pandemic
but if you're putting your energy in focusing on
in 2020 covid 19 turned a little known tech firm into one of the success stories of the pandemic
at the start of the year,about 10 million people were taking part in meetings over zoom each day,but this had shot up to 300 million by April 2020,and the widespread adoption of remote working during the pandemic could lead to further innovation in future
more companies may be inclined to take risks and embrace new ideas in the coming years
they've discovered that actually working from home cam work really well
doesn't seem to make people less productive
they make people more productive,that will mean that
after the crisis
companies will be more willing to keep some of those behaviors
maybe have less business travel
maybe have more working from home
and maybe even dare to try other things that they were reluctant to
so it's just allowing them to be tested and not punishing people if they don't work
because that's just going to put them off
some of the most
groundbreaking ideas require the right
opportunity in circumstances
to demonstrate their value
two decades ago
e learning emerged as a radical new idea
predicted to transform the world of education
but such predictions fell flat
sending all students home for the rest of this semester after a corona virus outbreak on campus
until covid 19 struck and the potential of remote learning became clear
as week one of the questions that I had for you is
what thinking means to be healthy
the online education market is set to nearly quadruple between 2019
and 2026
the pandemic has really changed the culture insight educational institutions and made them more open to,to adopting e learning
online learning,democratizes learning to a great extent
it has allowed students to really customize learning to their needs
you could complete an entire degree online because you may be in a
part of the world where it's very difficult for you to commute to,to a university
the culture change
around online learning seems here to stay
but with it comes a reminder that new innovations
can also struggle to overcome some old challenges
for full time university student a mum of three
christina holly
studying before the pandemic was going well
every semester I got
um asian beads
I was meeting and beating my own expectations
and my kids are studying really hard
and grades were good
but now christina is unable to afford
the technology required to allow her family
to participate in the switch to e learning
having the transition to online education was terrible
there weren't enough
devices in the home
I want to try and restart the internet first
using one chromebook for three children is terrible
first of all their schedules were at the same time
so when you have all three of you have to start school
at unk on one chromebook
it's impossible
according to america's education department
nearly 1 in 8 children
do not
have internet access via a desktop or laptop at home
digital
learning looks likely to entrench social inequality
in the post pandemic world
the reliance of technology has really surfaced these
inequalities that existed before
but that were not
as present because everyone was in a room together
christina says that falling behind
could force her to become a part time student
and that this will reduce her financial aid
and affect her ability to pay for her college studies
I hate to even think about what that means
because this is my
my life you know this is my kids future
there is really
no other option for me other than school
this is
what I need to do in order to bring us out of poverty
many of the innovations that are
flourished during the crisis are centred
around digital technology
and will have become
part of everyday life
when the world returns to more ordinary times
technologists and policymakers
face the challenge of ensuring these
new innovations do not entrench inequality
but instead broaden opportunity
I think that this is really
an important
chance for humanity
to not only bring new technology to bear
but for the first time
bring it to bear in a way that is
equitable for humans on earth
hello I'm tom standard deputy editor at the economist
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