No decentralizing technology so far—not telephones, not television, and not the internet—has dented that human desire to shake hands, despite technologists' predictions to the contrary.

到目前为止，没有一种技术能将人们分散开来，比如电话、电视和互联网，这些都没有削弱人们握手的欲望，尽管技术专家的预测与此相反。

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The human desire for good design is completely understandable.

身为人，我们向往有美观的设计，这让人很能理解。

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Others think that the explanation is memes, the cultural equivalent of genes in which ideas replicate through the human desire to imitate.

别人觉得可以用memes来解释这一切，这是一种类似文化的基因，通过它，各种想法从人类渴望模仿的念头里给复制了出来。

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He's going to have to make a concession to human weakness and the human desire to kill.

他不得不为人类的弱点,以及人类对杀戮的欲望妥协。

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Hobbes believed, on the other hand, that the overriding human fact, the overriding motivation of human behavior, is largely negative, not the desire to do good, but the desire to avoid some evil.

另一方面，霍布斯认为，人类最主要的行为，人行为的最主要的动机，在很大程度上是负面的，并不是为了做善良的事，只不过是为了避免罪恶的发生。

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We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

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Sometimes you just have to snatch good ideas that are in the wind and marry them to pop culture and human desire.

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It's an unhealthy but totally human desire for the good stuff.

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So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?

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