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And as you bring these trends together, and as you think of what it means to take people who are profoundly deaf,
當你把這些趨勢放到一起，你開始思考這些意味著什么？
who can now begin to hear -- I mean, remember the evolution of hearing aids, right?
讓完全失聰的人再度聽到聲音，記得助聽器的演變史嗎？
I mean, your grandparents had these great big cones, and then your parents had these odd boxes that would squawk at odd times during dinner, and now we have these little buds that nobody sees.
你的祖父輩使用這些大圓筒，你的父輩使用這些奇怪的會在吃飯時發出怪聲的盒子，現在我們有了這些沒人看的見的小設備。
And now you have cochlear implants that go into people's heads and allow the deaf to begin to hear.
目前又有把耳蝸植入進入人們的腦袋內讓失聰的人開始能聽見。
Now, they can't hear as well as you and I can. But, in 10 or 15 machine generations they will, and these are machine generations, not human generations.
現在，他們不僅能像你我一樣聆聽。但是在10到15代產品演化后他們將能做到，這些是機械的世代，不是人類的世代
And about two or three years after they can hear as well as you and I can, they'll be able to hear maybe how bats sing, or how whales talk, or how dogs talk, and other types of tonal scales.
在他們可以像你我一樣聽得大約2到3年以后，他們或許能聽見蝙蝠如何歌唱，鯨魚是如何交談，狗兒如何聊天，或者其他的聲調，
They'll be able to focus their hearing, they'll be able to increase the sensitivity, decrease the sensitivity, do a series of things that we can't do.
他們會能夠集中他們的聽力，能夠增加敏感度或者降低敏感度，做許多我們不能做的事情。
And the same thing is happening in eyes. This is a group in Germany that's beginning to engineer eyes so that people who are blind can begin to see light and dark. Very primitive.
同樣的事也會發生在視力上。德國有一個小組開始改造眼睛，讓盲人能開始看見亮暗。還比較簡單。
And then they'll be able to see shape. And then they'll be able to see color, and then they'll be able to see in definition, and one day, they'll see as well as you and I can.
然后他們會開始看見形狀。接著能看見顏色，后來就是真的看見東西了，直到有一天，他們能像你我般看。
And a couple of years after that, they'll be able to see in ultraviolet, they'll be able to see in infrared, they'll be able to focus their eyes, they'll be able to come into a microfocus.
過了幾年，他們就能看見紫外線了，又能看見紅外線了，能聚焦視力了，可以在微距上看東西。
They'll do stuff you and I can't do. All of these things are coming together,
他們將做你我不能做的事情。這些事情都匯集到一起，
and it's a particularly important thing to understand, as we worry about the flames of the present, to keep an eye on the future.
這是一個特別重要的需要大家來理解的事情，當我們在擔心目前的熱焰的時候，也要放眼未來。
