Kevin suggests that won't happen to our inventions: maybe tools can change, adapt and last forever.

Kevin的意思是说，这样的事不会发生在我们的发明身上：也许工具会改变，调整并永存。

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Other inventions—the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread—may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is what made us human.

其他发明——如车轮、农耕、切片面包——可能改变了我们的物质生活，但语言的出现才真正塑造了人类。

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Our inventions will always be shadowed by uncertainty, by the serendipity of brain cells making a new connection.

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It also underscores the importance of our inventions to the future of personal computing, as well as the expanding markets for mobile and cloud computing.

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That means we can drive our technology and leadership into these standards and have patents that protect our inventions that go into these standards, which are then implemented into millions of devices.

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