聽力原文:
Speed isn't everything
速度不是一切
What will this mean in practice? Moore's law was never a physical law, but a self-fulfilling prophecy—a triumph of central planning by which the technology industry co-ordinated and synchronised its actions. Its demise will make the rate of technological progress less predictable; there are likely to be bumps in the road as new performance-enhancing technologies arrive in fits and starts. But given that most people judge their computing devices on the availability of capabilities and features, rather than processing speed, it may not feel like much of a slowdown to consumers.
重點詞匯：
1 prophecy 預言
2 self-fulfilling 自我實現的，實現自己抱負的； （預言等）本身自然會實現的
Fear of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
害怕失敗可能會真的導致失敗。
3 triumph 勝利; 巨大的成就; （成功的）典范; （巨大成功或勝利的）心滿意足
4 synchronise 同步
5 demise 終止;消亡;死亡
6 bump 隆起，凸塊
7 fits and starts 間歇的，一陣一陣的

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聽力原文:
For companies, the end of Moore’s law will be disguised by the shift to cloud computing. Already, firms are upgrading PCs less often, and have stopped operating their own e-mail servers. This model depends, however, on fast and reliable connectivity. That will strengthen demand for improvements to broadband infrastructure: those with poor connectivity will be less able to benefit as improvements in computing increasingly happen inside cloud providers’ data centres.
重點詞匯：
1 disguise 假扮;化妝;喬裝
聽力原文:
For the technology industry itself, the decline of Moore's law strengthens the logic for centralised cloud computing, already dominated by a few big firms: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. They are working hard to improve the performance of their cloud infrastructure. And they are hunting for startups touting new tricks: Google bought Deepmind, the British firm that built AlphaGo, in 2014.
重點詞匯：
tout 兜攬;招徠

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