Name: 【TED】託比-夏普沙克：你不需要一個應用程序（Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that）。 (【TED】Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that (Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:46:03.000Z
Duration: 7 min 55 s

程度副詞

Let me start by asking you a question, just with a show of hands:

譯者: Geoff Chen 審譯者: Yuwei Cao 讓我先開始問你們一個問題，舉手就可以，

Who will admit in public to having a Blackberry?

誰會想要公開承認 想有個黑莓手機啊？

when you arrived here, like me, went and bought

你們來這兒的時候，像我一樣，會去買

Pay-as-you-go was a technology, or an idea,

充值是一項科技，或者說一個創意，

pioneered in Africa by a company called Vodacom

由一個叫Vodacom的非洲公司最先開始的

pay-as-you-go is one of the most dominant forces

充值方法是 在世界的經濟活動中

So I'm going to talk about innovation in Africa,

我這裡要講的就是來自非洲的創新，

But first, I'm going to ask you some other questions.

但首先，我要問你們其他幾個問題。

the alternating current that powers the lights

in this building or the city that we're in?

在這個大樓裡，或者說 我們所在的這個城市裡？

Why did Henry Ford have to invent the production line

為甚麼亨利．福特要發明生產線，

to produce these Fords that came in anything

And why did Eric Merrifield have to invent the dolos?

為甚麼埃里克．麥瑞菲爾德 要發明（防波堤護面用的）扭工字塊?

Blank stares. That is what a dolos looks like,

一臉茫然。這就是扭工字塊的樣子，

and in the background, you can see Robben Island.

在背景畫面，你可以看到羅本島。

This is a small dolos, and Eric Merrifield

這是一個小的扭工字塊， 而埃里克．麥瑞菲爾德

is the most famous inventor you've never heard of.

是你所沒聽過的最著名的發明家。

in a small South African town called East London,

and while he was watching his kids playing

with toys made from oxen bones called dolosse,

牛骨頭做的叫扭工字塊的玩具，

and they have used this in every harbor in the world

現在他們廣泛用於世界上的每個港口

The global shipping economy would not be possible

you have to put up this picture of the world from space,

你會從外層空間來的世界照片，

and people go, "Look, it's the Dark Continent."

然後人們說，“看，這是個黑暗的大陸！”

And it's really easy to see where innovation's going on.

很容易看出來在有發明創新的地方，

All the places with lots of electricity, it isn't.

And the reason it isn't is because everybody's

它不是創新的地方是因為每個人

watching television or playing Angry Birds.

都在看電視或者玩憤怒的小鳥。

not the way people have expropriated the word

This is real innovation, and I define it as problem-solving.

這是真正的創新， 我把它定義為問題解決方案。

People are solving real problems in Africa.

在非洲人們在解決真正的問題。

And when we solve real problems for people,

當我們為人們解決真正的問題時，

So in California, everybody's really excited

about a little square of plastic that you plug into a phone

and people say, "We've liberated the credit card

“我們從銷售終端解放了信用卡。”

Fantastic. Why do you even need a credit card?

棒極了！為甚麼非得需要信用卡？

In Africa, we've been doing that for years,

and we've been doing it on phones like this.

This is a picture I took at a place called Kitengela,

這張圖片是我在一個 叫基騰格拉的地方拍的，

在奈洛比南面一小時車程的地方，

and the thing that's so remarkable about the payment system

that's been pioneered in Africa called M-Pesa

是非洲支付系統的先驅，叫M-Pesa

它可以在幾乎每個手機上使用，

You can pay bills with it, you can buy your groceries,

and I'm told you can even bribe customs officials.

我告訴你，你甚至可以 用它賄賂海關官員。

moves through M-Pesa using phones like this.

And you think this is just a feature phone.

實際上它是非洲的智慧型手機。

It's also a radio, and it's also a torch,

We have really severe energy problems in Africa.

順便說一句，你可以 用這樣的手機更新臉書、

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