Changes are already happening. The future is here now. We have DNA, microchips, the Internet.

改变已经发生了。未来就在眼前。我们有了遗传基因、微芯片和互联网。

Now, what might these microchips be doing?

那么，这些微芯片可能在做什么呢？

Wow! I'm not sure I'd want a microchip inserted under my skin.

喔！我可能不会想在我的皮肤下面植入一个微芯片。

People will have microchips implanted in their brains or something.

人们的脑部或是什么地方会植入微芯片。

The shelter used a microchip to find her original owner.

庇护所用芯片找到了她的原主人。

With the price of microchips dropping so drastically, future applications of GPS are virtually limitless.

随着微芯片价格的大幅度下降，未来对全球卫星定位系统的应用几乎是无限的。

Big shortage of lumber… Shortage of snowblowers… And a shortage of microchips.

木材严重短缺… … 吹雪机严重短缺… … 微芯片严重短缺。

It describes something that operates through the use of many small electrical parts, such as microchips.

它描述的是通过使用许多小型电子部件，如微芯片，来运转的东西。

The government is asking people to apply for plastic My Number cards which have microchips and photos.

日本政府要求人们申请配备微芯片和照片的塑料“My Number”卡。

Then he studied the specs for the latest microchips and tried to redesign the computers using these newer parts.

之后，他研究了最新的微芯片的规格，开始使用这些最新的元器件重新设计计算机。

But it's nothing like microchips, which sometimes confuses us to think that exponential improvement can just show up everywhere.

但是芯片的发展完全不一样，芯片指数级别的进步随处可见，这有时让我们困惑。

It would be because of the global microchip shortage we told you about last year.

而是我们去年提到过的全球“芯片荒”。

In this case, the microchip we're talking about can identify you.

我们刚才说的这种微芯片的功能就是能够识别你的身份。

Most of the water is used for microchip manufacturing centers and cooling systems in buildings.

大部分水用于微芯片制造中心和建筑物的冷却系统。

Or that Bill Gates is going to microchip Americans using the COVID-19 vaccine? That's also false.

又或者比尔·盖茨会给使用COVID-19疫苗的美国人植入微芯片？这也是假的。

Water is used not just to grow food but to make every kind of product, from microchips to steel girders.

水不仅用来种植粮食，还用来制造从芯片到建房、架桥用的钢梁等各种产品。

And big uncertainties can make things like the tiny microchip in your new phone less precise and less efficient.

这种极大的不精确会导致像新手机的微型芯片这样的物品越来越不精确，效果越来越差。

General Motors and Hyundai became the latest carmakers to announce production cuts as a result of a global shortage of microchips.

由于全球微芯片短缺，通用汽车(General Motors)和现代汽车(Hyundai)成为最新宣布减产的汽车制造商。

Experts believe in the next few years the shortage of microchips needed to produce cars and trucks will not go away.

专家认为，在接下来的几年里，生产轿车和卡车所需的微芯片短缺不会消失。

Would you like to have a microchip inserted into your body?

您想将微芯片植入您的身体吗？