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我记得，大概12岁的时候，读过一篇文章，应该是在《科学美国人》杂志。
那篇文章给出了地球上所有物种的运动效率，从 A 点到 B 点，同样的距离，它们消耗了多少能量。
结果，秃鹫位居榜首，运动效率最高，超越了其他所有生物。人类排在榜单的最后三分之一，对于”万物之王”，这个成绩实在不值一提。
但是，作者很有想象力，测试了人类骑自行车的效率，结果远远超过了秃鹫，荣登榜首。
这给我留下了深刻的印象。我们人类是工具制造者。我们可以制造工具，将自己的能力放大到惊人的程度。
对我来说，计算机就是思维的自行车。它能让我们超越自身的能力。
我认为，我们才刚刚处于计算机的早期阶段—-非常早期的阶段—-我们只走了很短的一段路，计算机仍在发展中，但我们已经看到了巨大的变化。
我认为现在与未来一百年即将发生的事情相比，根本不算什么。
SJ: I remember reading an article when I was about twelve years old. I think it might have been Scientific American where they measured the efficiency of locomotion for all these species on planet earth. How many kilocalories did they expend to get from point A to point B? And the Condor 1 came in at the top of the list, surpassed everything else. And humans came in about a third of the way down the list which was not such a great showing for the crown of creation. And — but somebody there had the imagination to test the efficiency of a human riding a bicycle. A human riding a bicycle blew away the Condor, all the way off the top of the list. And it made a really big impression on me that we humans are tool builders. And that we can fashion tools that amplify these inherent abilities that we have to spectacular magnitudes. And so for me, a computer has always been a bicycle of the mind. Something that takes us far beyond our inherent abilities.
And I think we’re just at the early stages of this tool. Very early stages. And we’ve come only a very short distance. And it’s still in its formation, but already we’ve seen enormous changes. I think that’s nothing compared to what’s coming in the next hundred years.
我们人类是工具制造者。我们可以制造工具，将自己的能力放大到惊人的程度。对我来说，计算机就是思维的自行车。它能让我们超越自身的能力。