Without quantum mechanics there would be no transistor, and hence no personal computer; no laser, and hence no Blu-ray players.

没有量子力学，就不会有晶体管，从而就不会有个人电脑；没有激光，那么就不会有蓝光唱机。

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By 1973, when I moved there, PARC researchers had invented the first user-friendly computer, laser printing, object-oriented programming, a personal workstation, and the foundation of the Ethernet.

到1973年，当我搬去那里，帕洛·阿尔托研究中心研究院发明了第一个用户友好的计算机，激光打印，面向对象的程序设计，个人工作站，以及建立以太网络。

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And I showed that the computer, the Internet, and the laser-three recent technological black swans-came out of nowhere.

我也说过电脑、因特网和激光，这三样现代科技的“黑天鹅”，本来一无所闻。

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Of course the goal of advertising has always been to present the right message to the right consumers but the current form of television advertising that was ushered in during the Mad Men era is a blunt instrument in an age of computer controlled laser surgery.

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Information about each layer is transmitted from the computer to a laser beam, which melts the PCL into a 3-D structure.

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The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those who invented them.

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