【有文稿】2016这些高科技，你值得拥有

Lincoln: A British consulting company rolled out a list of predictions for the coming year. Nick, maybe you can take us through some of them? Nick: Yes, so as you said, the New Year is coming, and Juniper Research, this consulting company, has rolled out their technology predictions. So there’s a top ten that they’ve given us a list of, and they’re a varied bunch. Starting from the bottom, at number ten, one of the ones they’ve drawn attention to is the growth of crowd-funding, which is a very interesting development in people gaining money from unconventional sources for whatever projects or business plans they have going, and the internet has really facilitated that. Is that something that’s big in China, Wu You? WY: I think it is big, and also I’ve heard of someone who had a lack of money to open a café, but as soon as she put that news online, lots of people would just directly go crowd-funding, and they will donate money to her, but they will be shareholders. Nick: So that’s really helping people to gain access to capital that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to access. Moving up the list, they’ve also mentioned that there will be developments in the security sector of technology, so we’ve heard a lot this year about hacking problems, or cyber crimes, things like that. They’re predicting that there will be big developments in the security sector when it comes to technology, which maybe there isn’t so much regulation on currently. Lincoln: I think one of the most interesting ones I’ve actually seen here, as well, e-sports. I’m a big sports fan, as we all know, I try to shoe-horn it into every conversation in my life, and one of the interesting things I see here is the idea of competitive video games, people actually playing against each other. I remember a while back, we did a story about a young man who was actually making a living like this, and I actually know some people who love this, who actually love doing this, who play video games, and I think that’s a very interesting thing. It will probably only get bigger, as well. And one of the interesting ones, I also saw, was wearables, wearable technology. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about that, Nick. Nick: So this is something, again, that’s already begun to be developed, but that they think is really going to take off in the coming year: wearable technology. Things like smart glasses, smart watches, all of these products that you wear on your body but are pieces of technology. So there are all kinds of things, like headsets, for you to be able to have your phone attached to your head, as it were. You can just answer a call by just speaking to the machine yourself. And fitness devices, as well, so it can track your heart rate, and things like that. And that’s also got big implications for healthcare devices. Lincoln: What about the other thing that I think everyone wants to speak about, which is consumer robotics? How can we get more robots into our lives? Wu You? WY: I think it’s talking about when people can buy robots directly in the supermarket, and I think when that year comes, people can do the jobs demanding high intelligence and let the robot do things like washing dishes, cleaning the floor, washing your clothes… Lincoln: To be fair, a robot technically already washes my clothes, it’s called a washing machine. WY: But dry it for you, pack it together for you … Lincoln: I want everything. I want a robot to make my bed. I want a robot to take out the trash … Nick: I think there’s a very fine line between this and what we discussed yesterday, which is robots taking our jobs. Lincoln: Okay, okay, so now we’re moving on to which jobs we would like robots to take! That’s actually what we’re moving on to. I’m pretty sure, in 2016, that technology won’t advance fast enough that we can actually get a robot to make my bed.