3/26 Charlie Jane Anders:Go ahead,dream about the futuer.
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Our world is changing so fast, and there’s a kind of accelerating (加速) feedback (n. 反饋；回覆；成果，資料) loop where technological (科技的，工藝的) change and social change feed on each other.
我們的世界瞬息萬變，有一種加速反饋循環，技術變革和社會變革相互促進。 -
When I was a kid in the 1980s, we knew what the future was going to look like.
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But now, nobody knows what the world is going to look like even in just a couple years, and there are so many scary apparitions lurking (n. （新用戶的）“潛伏”（在USENET上作爲旁觀者，不參加討論）) on the horizon.
但現在，沒有人知道世界會是什麼樣子，即使在短短几年內，有這麼多的可怕的幽靈潛伏在地平線上。 -
It’s a way of vaccinating yourself against the worst possible case of future shock.
這是一種爲自己接種疫苗，防止未來最壞情況休克的方法。 -
what’s differnce between predict and imagine.I think a lot about what I know of human nature and the way that people have responded in the past to huge changes and upheavals and transformations.
我想了很多關於我對人性的瞭解，以及人們過去對巨大變化、動盪和轉變的反應方式。
upheavals: a violent or sudden change or disruption to something -
I try to picture a green city with vertical (1. adj. 垂直的，直立的；頭頂的，頂點的 2. n. 垂直線，垂直面) farms (1. n. 農場；莊園（farm的複數形式） 2. v. 耕種，種植，養殖（farm的第三人稱單數形式）) and structures that are partially (部分) grown rather than built and walkways instead of streets, because nobody gets around by car anymore – a city that lives and breathes.
我試圖想象一個綠色城市，垂直農場和結構是部分種植，而不是建造和走道，而不是街道，因爲沒有人再開車四處走動——一個生活和呼吸的城市。 -
And, you know, I kind of start by daydreaming the wildest stuff that I can possibly come up with, and then I go back into research mode, and I try to make it as plausible (adj. 貌似真實的，貌似有理的；貌似可信的，花言巧語的) as I can by looking at a mixture (n. 混合；混合物；混合劑) of urban (adj. 城市的；住在都市的) futurism (n. 未來派；未來主義), design porn and technological (科技的，工藝的) speculation (沉思， 推測， 投機).
你知道，我開始做白日夢，我可能想出的最瘋狂的東西，然後我回到研究模式，我試圖通過觀察城市未來主義、設計色情和技術投機的混合體，儘可能使之變得合理。 -
I can’t possibly imagine what might go wrong in that scenario.
我無法想象在這種情況下會出什麼問題。