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Adam Ostrow: Hello.
亞當·奧斯丘：你好。
Death: Adam?
死神：亞當？
AO: Yeah.
亞當：是。
Death: Death can catch you anywhere, anytime,
死神：死神可以在任何時間，任何地點抓到你，
even at the Organic.
甚至在你還是有機體的時候。
AO: Who is this?
亞當：你是誰？
Death: Go to ifidie.net
死神：去如果我死了.net
before it's too late.
在一切都太遲以前。
Adam Ostrow: Kind of creepy, right?
亞當·奧斯丘：有點嚇人，對吧？
So what that service does, quite simply,
這種服務，其實很簡單，
is let you create a message or a video
就是讓你準備一條信息或一段視頻，
that can be posted to Facebook after you die.
它們會在你死后被發布在臉書上。
Another service right now
最近的另一種服務，
is called 1,000 Memories.
叫做1000個回憶。
And what this lets you do is create an online tribute to your loved ones,
這種服務可以讓你創造一種在線的稱贊給你的親友們，
complete with photos and videos and stories
他們可以在你去世后，
that they can post after you die.
發布照片、視頻、和你們之間的故事。
But what I think comes next is far more interesting.
但是我認為下面的這個例子要有趣的多。
Now a lot of you are probably familiar with Deb Roy
現在，你們中的很多人可能都很熟悉戴·羅伊
who, back in March,
他在3月份的演講中，
demonstrated how he was able to analyze more than 90,000 hours of home video.
演示了他是如何解析那長于9萬小時的家庭錄影。
I think as machines' ability
我想既然機器有能力
to understand human language and process vast amounts of data
去理解人類的語言，并處理大量的數據,
continues to improve,
如果持續地改進，
it's going to become possible
很有可能，它們將可以
to analyze an entire life's worth of content --
解析一個人的一生－－
the Tweets, the photos, the videos, the blog posts --
微博，照片，視頻，博客－－
that we're producing in such massive numbers.
所有我們產生的，大量的信息。
And I think as that happens,
并且我認為，如果那真的發生了，
it's going to become possible for our digital personas
我們的數碼角色就很有可能
to continue to interact in the real world long after we're gone
在我們離開很久之后持續地與現實世界中的我們互動。
thanks to the vastness of the amount of content we're creating
這要歸功于我們創造的大量的內容
and technology's ability to make sense of it all.
和科技的力量，讓它們得以付諸實踐。
Now we're already starting to see some experiments here.
現在，我們已經開始著手一些實驗。
One service called My Next Tweet
其中一個服務叫做”我的下一條微博“，
analyzes your entire Twitter stream, everything you've posted onto Twitter,
分析你的整個微博檔案，所有你在微博上發布的信息，
to make some predictions as to what you might say next.
去預測你接下來會說什么。
Well right now, as you can see,
現在，正如你看到的，
the results can be somewhat comical.
結果會有點滑稽。
You can imagine what something like this might look like
你可以想象這樣的事物在5年、10年，或者20年后
five, 10 or 20 years from now
會看起來怎樣，
as our technical capabilities improve.
基于我們的科技能力在不斷提升。
Taking it a step further,
進一步地說，
MIT's media lab is working on robots
麻省理工的媒體實驗室正忙于研究
that can interact more like humans.
能更像人類那樣互動的機器人。
But what if those robots were able to interact
但是如果這些機器人能夠正常互動，
based on the unique characteristics of a specific person
基于具體個人的獨特個性，
based on the hundreds of thousands of pieces of content
基于人一生中創造的千千萬萬條的內容，
that person produces in their lifetime?
那將會怎樣？
Finally, think back to this famous scene
最后，讓我們的思緒回到這個著名的一幕，
from election night 2008
2008年的選舉之夜，
back in the United States,
在美國，
where CNN beamed a live hologram
CNN發送了一張嘻哈歌手”我是威爾“的
of hip hop artist will.i.am into their studio
現場全息圖去他們的演播室，
for an interview with Anderson Cooper.
那是為安德森·庫珀的采訪準備的。
What if we were able to use that same type of technology
如果我們可以用同樣的科技
to beam a representation of our loved ones into our living rooms --
發送一個我們親人的重現影像到我們的客廳，
interacting in a very lifelike way
非常逼真地互動，
based on all the content they created while they were alive?
基于他們活著時候創造的內容，那將會怎樣？
I think that's going to become completely possible
我認為這是完全有可能的，
as the amount of data we're producing
因為我們使用的數據流量
and technology's ability to understand it
和科技對其認知的能力，
both expand exponentially.
都在成倍地增長。
Now in closing, I think what we all need to be thinking about
在結束之際，我認為我們都需要思考的是，
is if we want that to become our reality --
我們是否想要此成為現實，
and if so,
如果是，
what it means for a definition of life and everything that comes after it.
它對生命的定義，以及隨之而來的一切事物，又意味著什么？
Thank you very much.
非常感謝。
