The kinds of things that are going to be invented over the next several years is just to me outstanding, and particularly for somebody who's got skills in software.
在接下来的数十年里要被发明出的东西,真是令人望而生叹,尤其对于有软件才能的人来说。
Then from these beginnings, engineers transformed life in the twentieth century: a lot of things started in the twentieth century and became common place.
从此开始,工程师们改变了二十世纪的生活,有很多东西在二十世纪发明并得到普及
.. Inventing the wheel--it seems, what could be more obvious than a wheel?
发明轮子这看起来,有什么东西会比轮子更常见呢?
It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.
一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。
Although, I said, insurance was effectively discovered or invented in the 1600s, it has been slow to grow because they didn't have the well-defined-- all of the inventions yet.
尽管我说过,保险实际上,是在17世纪的时候被发现或者发明的,但它的发展非常缓慢,因为人们无法确切定义-,这种被发明出的东西。
So, all those things developed in the nineteenth century.
这些东西都是在19世纪发明的。
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