A big step towards modern technology was the invention of the first portable cassette player.

迈向现代科技的一大步是发明了第一台便携式盒式磁带播放机。

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John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

《拉动力》等书的作者约翰·哈格尔表示，布林约尔松和迈克菲没有考虑到为什么这些工作最容易受到科技的影响。

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The first is that the promises of technology will never be realised as fully as we hope, they will be limited by their unforeseen and unintended consequences.

首先，技术的承诺永远不会像我们希望的那样得以充分实现，它们将受到不可预见和意外后果的限制。

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FIRST is the short way of saying the organization's complete name: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.

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So I set about on two missions, the first was to visit high schools around country and talk to young people about their use of digital technology and second was to go online and began to look closely at websites, chat rooms, internet list that young people were creating.

我为此制定了两个任务，第一个是拜访全国的高中,与年轻人进行交谈,关于他们对电子技术的使用,第二个任务就是上网,开始认真研究那些网站，聊天室，以及年轻人们所创造的网络世界。

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She became the first African-American woman to earn a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Can Apple be the first technology-product producer in history to avoid the precedent of declining prices and narrowing margins over time?

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The first technology--say, a stick bent and strung to make a bow--came from a need to improve an existing process of food gathering.

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We learned a lot from the first generation technology and the 2nd generation further improves power efficiency.

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