He says the financial crisis should be seen as a wake-up call to change systems and ways of thinking, and to re-establish trust.

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All of these systems we can call "languages," and "language"--that is to say, the words that we use when we speak to each other is one of those systems.

这种系统我们称为语言“,也就是说，是关于我们说话用语的研究,关于那个系统的研究。

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Most companies in the world today spend about 70 % of their IT dollars on what I call feeding the dinosaurs, just maintaining the old systems.

当今世界，大部分公司70%的信息技术成本,都用于喂饱恐龙了，也就是，维持旧的体系。

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For a bank, those channels could include automated teller machines (ATMs), bank teller terminals, Web pages, mobile apps, point-of-sale machines in retail, human-staffed call centers, and automated call systems.

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