Name: 【TED】JP Rangaswami:資訊就是食物(JP Rangaswami：資訊就是食物) (【TED】JP Rangaswami: Information is food (JP Rangaswami: Information is food))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:27:33.000Z
Duration: 8 min 9 s

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

譯者: I-Hsiang Lin 審譯者: Yuguo Zhang

that one of those passions is a little more apparent than the other.

我對其中一項的喜好明顯地大於另外一項。

But what I want to do in the next eight minutes or so

is to take you through how those passions developed,

帶領大家體驗這些喜好是如何發展而成，

the point in my life when the two passions merged,

當這兩項喜好在我生命合而為一的時候，

the journey of learning that took place from that point.

And one idea I want to leave you with today

is what would would happen differently in your life

if you saw information the way you saw food?

a family where my father and his father before him

and they wrote magazines in the English language.

而且他們都在雜誌上發表英文文章。

I grew up with books everywhere around the house.

我在家內充滿書的環境中長大。

And I mean books everywhere around the house.

事實上這是加爾各達的一間商店，

but it's a place where we like our books.

但是個會讓人愛上書本的地方。

事實上我現在擁有三萬八千本書，

沒有一本是Kindle(亞馬遜電子書閱讀器)。

But growing up as a child with the books around everywhere,

with people to talk to about those books,

this wasn't a sort of slightly learned thing.

By the time I was 18, I had a deep passion for books.

當我18歲的時候，我熱愛書本。

again, I had a well-established passion for food.

Now I was growing up in the late '60s and early '70s,

and there were a number of other passions I was also interested in,

我也還有很多其它的熱愛的事物，

but these two were the ones that differentiated me.

and I went to a movie called "Short Circuit."

看了一部叫“霹靂五號"(SHORT CIRCUIT)的電影。

And apparently it's being remade right now

and it's going to be coming out next year.

It's the story of this experimental robot

And as it ran, this thing was saying, "Give me input. Give me input."

當它奔跑時，不斷地說：「給我資料，給我資料。」

能量以某種形態或形狀進入它體內

資料也以各種形態或形狀進入它體內。

as if energy and information were the two things I had as input --

彷彿能量與資訊是我要吸收的兩樣東西 --

as if food and information were similar in some form or shape.

如同食物和資訊有類似的型態或者形狀。

I started doing some research then, and this was the 25-year journey,

我從那時起開始從事相關的研究，到現在已經二十五年了

than should be the size for our body weight

And as I went to research that even further,

I got to a point where I discovered something

高耗能組織假說(expensive tissue hypothesis)。

That actually for a given body mass of a primate

What changed was the balance of the tissues available.

And two of the most expensive tissues in our human body

而人類身體內最高耗能的兩個組織

And what transpired was that people had put forward a hypothesis

that was apparently coming up with some fabulous results by about 1995.

And the paper then suggested that you traded one for the other.

在報告中提出人們將用一個器官交換另一個。

If you wanted your brain for a particular body mass to be large,

如果你想要個相對於特定身體質量較大的大腦，

你就必須接受擁有較小的內臟。

我可以說，好的，這兩者是相連的。

So I looked at the cultivation of information as if it were food

and said, So we were hunter-gathers of information.

試想我們以前都是資訊的採獵者。

We moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

接著我們變成農夫和資訊培養者。

Does that really explain what we're seeing

with the intellectual property battles nowadays?

今日常見的智慧財產權爭奪戰？

Because those people who were hunter-gatherers in origin

wanted to be free and roam and pick up information as they wanted,

想要隨心所欲地自由採集資訊，

and those that were in the business of farming information

create ownership and wealth and structure and settlement.

以宣稱所有權，製造財富，組織和法定財產。

So there was always going to be a tension within that.

said there were huge fights amongst the foodies

between the cultivators and the hunter-gatherers.

When I moved to preparation, this same thing was true,

當我開始要準備的時候，面臨到一樣的狀況，

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