未来主义者

True, we can ruin our future if we listen to the voices of defeatism and give in to the classic isolationist tendencies of protectionism and xenophobia.

确实，我们可以听信那些悲观论调、孤立主义者的地方保护主义和排外主义而轻易的毁掉我们的未来。

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning. It will outline a connectivist understanding of educational systems of the future. George Siemens and Stephen Downes – the two leading figures on connectivism and connective knowledge - will co-facilitate this innovative and timely course.

"连接主义和连接的知识"，是一个12周的课程我们开始探讨连接主义的概念和知识之间的连接，继而探究其在教和学上的应用，也同时勾画出了一幅连接主义者视角下的未来教育图景， George Siemens and Stephen Downes 两位连接主义知识下的领军人物将会一起引导这个极具创新意识同时也很及时的课程。

This speeding up of life, says the Futurist, requires a new form of expression.

未来主义者说，生活速度的提高，需要一种新的表达方式。

This speeding up of life, says the Futurist, requires a new birth form of expression.

未来主义者说，生活节奏的加快，需要一种表达形式的新生。

Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist.

与其说托马斯·L·弗里德曼是个未来主义者，不如说他是个现在主义者。

The difference between the Malthusian pessimists and the cornucopian optimists," says Postel,"comes down to little more than an assumption about grain land productivity over the next several decades—specifically, whether yields will grow at closer to the 1 percent rate of the 1990s or the 2 percent rate of the previous four decades.

波斯特尔说：&在未来数十年內，持马尔萨斯人口论的悲观主义者和众多乐观主义者的争论焦点，不过是估测农田谷物的生产力而已。具体来说，谷物产量增长率是接近二十世纪九十年代的1%速率，还是接近过去四十年的2%速率？&

The etymology of the term "transhuman" goes back to the futurist FM-2030 (also known as F. M. Estfandiary), who introduced it as shorthand for "transitional human".

&过渡人&可以追溯到未来主义者 FM-2030（ FM-2003），他把& thanshuman &作为& thanssitional human &的简称来进行介绍。

World-recognized scientist MacDonald had a number of ideas for using the environment as a weapon system and he contributed to what was, at the time, the dream of a futurist.

世界著名的科学家麦克唐纳有许多对于作为一套武器系统而利用环境的思想，它对当时所谓&未来主义者之梦&做出了贡献。

It looks more like a futuristic bracelet than a watch.

它与手表相比更像一款未来主义者的手镯。

In the same letter, therefore, he criticizes the Italian Futurist Marinetti for seeking a purely scientific or technological vision when a human being was in question.

所以，他对于意大利未来主义者马里内蒂诉诸纯粹科学与技术的方法来回应对人类自身的这一命题予以了批判。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。