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Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else.…
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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,…
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I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward…
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From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often…
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If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy…
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The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing…
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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the…
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Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin…
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a…
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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we…
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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
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Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.…
— Paul Auster
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
— Beck
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and…
— Nicolas Cage
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear…
— Maya Angelou
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of…
— Oleg Cassini
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
— Thomas Paine
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He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.
— Unknown Author
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I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is…
— Scarlett Johansson
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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
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