No amount of improvement in computer hardware will ever make such a problem tractable. The only hope is an enormous, and unlikely, conceptual breakthrough in how to attack the question.

计算机硬件方面再多的改进也不足以解决这个问题，只能寄希望于庞大的，不大可能的关于如何解决问题的概念性突破。

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Of all the forms which the quest for knowledge takes in modern sf, by far the most important, in terms of both the quality and the quantity of the work that dramatizes it, is conceptual breakthrough.

在现代科幻小说中以各种各样的形式出现的对知识的追求中，无论从作品的质还是量来看，最重要的一个，是概念突破。

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The word means both "path" and "method" and this dual meaning gave me a conceptual breakthrough.

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After that, and after his conceptual breakthrough, Roth was ready to experiment.

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There was, however, an even bigger conceptual breakthrough: the mobile device as general purpose computer, open to the world of software, powered by the resources of the cloud.

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