TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(2)

Originally, it was meant to be from Beijing, the northern capital to Nanjing, the southern capital. 最初，我们打算从北京一路走到南京。 But I walked a little bit too fast and I got there three weeks early 但我走的太快了点，我提

TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(3)

A few local houses around a local square. 有一些房屋建在当地的一个广场上。 In the middle of the square, a great tree, an oak tree. 广场中央有一棵巨大的橡树。 And beside the oak tree, there was a well. 橡树旁边有一口井

TED演讲:我难忘的一次中国行(4)

I was amazed. I felt like Marco Polo. 我很惊讶。我觉得自己就像是马可波罗。 And to capture the moment, I said to Xuelin, 为了捕捉这一刻，我对雪琳说， I said do you think that they will be OK if we actually took a photog

TED演讲:给阿富汗人带来心灵宁静(4)

So everybody needs a sense for the future, and the Afghan sense of the future is shattered. 所以每一个人都要心系未来。阿富汗人未来的观念是非常弱的。 But let me repeat the words of the woman. 但是让我重复一遍那位女

TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(8)

Now the other thing you'll notice about the top 10 there is, 另外一件你注意到的前十名的事情是， of course, they're all, apart from New Zealand, Western European nations. 当然，除了新西兰以外，它们都是欧州国家。 Th

TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(9)

Now that's the Good Country Index. What's it there for? 这就是好国家指数。它有什么目的？ Well, it's there really because I want to try to introduce this word, or reintroduce this word, into the discourse. 它存在的目的是因为我想

TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(10)

That's what I would like you to do, and I'd like you to use it as a stick with which to beat your politicians. 这是我希望你做的，我希望你用它当一根棍子来鞭策你的政党。 When you elect them, when you reelect them, when you v

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(1)

Once upon a time, the world was a big, dysfunctional family. 很久以前，世界是个很大却不和谐的大家庭。 It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children. 这个家庭被伟大的

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(2)

Well, I'm the girl in that story, and the secret documents that I was interested in were located in this building, 对，我就是故事里的小女孩，而我感兴趣的秘密就藏在这栋楼里， the British Parliament, and the data that I wan

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(3)

Well, that's not exactly the story, because the problem was that Parliament delayed and delayed releasing that data, 呵呵，但我讲述的并不是很完整的故事。因为问题在于，议会不断地拖延公布这些信息， and then they t

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(4)

So we are moving to this democratization of information, and I've been in this field for quite a while. 我们已经进入了信息的民主化，我已经研究这方面很久了。 Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to h

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(5)

In our day, we have digitization. That strips all the physical mass out of information, 现在我们有了数据电子化。这把信息从成堆成堆的状况下解救出来， so now it's almost zero cost to copy and share information. 所以现在拷

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(6)

And they're all moving to this central system, this fully connected system, all of them except one. 他们都逐渐走向完全连接的系统，不过，有一点还没有。 Can you guess which one? It's the system which underpins all these other s

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(8)

But again, when it comes to the decisions which are impacting us the most, 但是，当我们谈论到最影响我们的决定， perhaps, the most important decisions that are being made about war and so forth, 可能关于类似战争这种最重要的

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(9)

So I've mentioned WikiLeaks, because surely what could be more open than publishing all the material? 我刚提到了维基解密，因为，还有比它更加公开的么？ Because that is what Julian Assange did. 因为朱利安阿桑奇就这么做

TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(10)

So what is the solution? It is, I believe, to embody within the rule of law rights to information. 那么怎样解决呢？我相信那就是有接近信息的法律权力。 At the moment our rights are incredibly weak. 现在我们的权力还十分微

TED演讲:我那曝光政府腐败的战斗(11)

So he was talking about the law in Britain which is the Communications Data Bill, an absolutely outrageous piece of legislation. 而他在谈论一个令人愤怒的英国通信数据法案啊！ In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing an

TED演讲:我无家可归的一年(1)

I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person, 我是一个作家，一个新闻记者，我也是一位具有强烈求知欲的人， so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things. 所以在做新闻

TED演讲:曝光政府腐败的战斗(7)

This is Birgitta Jonsdottir. She's an Icelandic MP. And quite an unusual MP. 照片上的是Birgitta Jonsdottir。她是冰岛下院议员。一个不寻常的议员。 In Iceland, she was one of the protesters who was outside of Parliament when the

TED演讲:哪个国家对世界最有益(4)

But actually, aren't most of us not really so very good at empathy? 但事实上，我们大多数人难道不是缺乏同情心吗？ Oh sure, we're very good at empathy when it's a question of dealing with people who kind of look like us 当然，我