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If you want to do well,
如果你想要表現好
I feel that should be a personal achievement
我認為就應該靠個人努力
as opposed to enhanced by artificial mechanisms.
而不是通過來人為的機制來提高
If a lot of people took it,
如果大量的人服用它
then people would have to
那么人們就必須服用
take it to be able to compete with their peers.
這樣才能和同齡人競爭
To be perfectly honest, doing what it does, if it was legal,
坦誠地說 如果這么做是合法的
and it was safe, everyone would be doing it.
并且安全的 那么每個人都會服用
Already it's being put to use among professionals.
現在一些專業人士已經開始服用了
Professors are using it to help them work,
教授們用它們來幫助工作
and surgeons are looking at it
外科醫生們服用它
as a way of staying alert during long and complex surgery.
是為了在長時間復雜手術中保持敏銳
But for Professor Sahakian
但是對于薩哈金教授
the question remains
依然存在一個問題
will it actually make our lives better?
它真的能改善我們的生活嗎
Suppose we took cognitive enhancing drugs
假如我們服用提高認知的藥物
and we got all our work done in a short period of time,
我們在短時間內把工作做完
we could go home, spend time with our
我們就可以回家 和家人在一起
family and improve our work/life balance. That would be great.
改善工作與家庭之間的平衡 那很不錯
But it's more likely with the
但是 當今社會
type of society that we seem to be moving towards
正朝向無休止地工作發展
that it will be this 24/7
因此更有可能出現的情況是
society so we'll take these drugs so we can
我們服用這些藥物
work longer, so we can travel more and do
是為了讓做工作時間更長 旅行更多
more work so it will
然后做更多的工作
disrupt our work/life balance even more.
因此會使工作與生活的平衡變得更糟
