Name: 【TED】Geoffrey West:有關都市和企業集團的驚奇數學 (Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations)
Uploaded: 2013-03-31T13:12:58.000Z
Duration: 17 min 34 s

at an exponential rate in the last 200 years

so that by the second part of this century,

Cities are the origins of global warming,

That's where all these problems come from.

And the tsunami of problems that we feel we're facing

我們認為我們正面臨地震海嘯之困境

The planet has crossed the halfway mark a few years ago.

幾年前地球都市化已逾百分之五十,

Everybody in this room, if you stay alive,

這演講廳的每個人──若你們仍然活著的話──

despite having this negative aspect to them,

──儘管有這不利的層面存在──

Because cities are the vacuum cleaners and the magnets

This work has been done with an extraordinary group of people,

這項研究成果是與一群非凡的人共同完成的,

So here's the problem: This is what we all want.

The 10 billion people on the planet in 2050

到了2050年,地球上會有百億人口

with economies that are growing like this,

Is that what Edinburgh and London and New York

look like this is what it's going to look like,

is that we desperately need a serious scientific theory of cities.

我們極需要一個嚴謹的都市科學理論。

And scientific theory means quantifiable --

that can be made into a predictive framework.

that I have in my head when I think about this problem.

the DNA of a company, the metabolism of a city, and so on --

──公司的DNA、一座都市的新陳代謝等等──

is that just bullshit, metaphorical bullshit,

那只是胡扯嗎?隱喻法的爛用嗎?

how come that it's very hard to kill a city?

所有的企業會死亡......,所有企業。

And if you have a serious theory, you should be able to predict

而且若你有嚴謹的理論,你該可以預測

那麼,「都市」只是「叢林」的另一個

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【TED】Geoffrey West:有關都市和企業集團的驚奇數學 (Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations)

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