延伸了这个火的礼物的比喻，本书的第一章描绘了当今我们所拥有的伟大礼物现代科技，特别是计算机技术。
Extending this metaphor of fire-as-gift, the first chapter of the book describes the great gift we have today with modern technology, especially computer technology.
人们常常将大脑比喻为计算机，但是用现在的眼光看，那实在是20世纪的说法。
The most familiar analogy to the brain is usually the computer, but that's so 20th century now.
在这个比喻中，火箭引擎便是大型计算机——在百度，也就是我们正在建造的超级计算机——而火箭燃料便是我们拥有的大量数据。
The analogy is that the rocket engines are the large computers-in Baidu's case, supercomputers we can now build-and the rocket fuel is the huge amounts of data we now have.
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