Even sculpture has adopted digital "rapid prototyping" technology that allows whatever a programmer can imagine to be translated into 3-d objects in plastic.

连雕塑也可以利用电子“快速原型技术”把三维模型迅速制作成塑料模型。

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Bitcoin, the world’s “first decentralised digital currency”, was devised in 2009 by a programmer called Satoshi Nakomoto (thought not to be his, or her, real name).

比特币,世界上“第一种分散式虚拟货币”，在2009年由一位叫做Satoshi Nakomoto（这应该不是他/她的真名）的程序员发明。

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However, in the digital world, an object does what it can do because a programmer imbued it with the power to do something.

但是在数字世界里，对象之所以可以完成任务，是因为程序员赋予它做某事的能力。

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In 1965, a programmer at Applied Digital Research (ADR), named Marty Goetz, filed the first software patent.

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For every thousand people who watch a Flash clip online or fill out an online Adobe Acrobat Reader tax form (without paying), there's a Web programmer or graphic designer who paid several hundred dollars for the right to create that digital content using Adobe's multimedia production and editing tools such as Flash, Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop.

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