作为技术从业者，我们有责任去创造并资助那些能让未来比现在更美好的事物。 Our obligation as technologists is to build and fund things that try and make the future better than the present. 这句话在当下比以往任何时候都更加真实。 换句话说：我们必须迅速迈向未来，同时不断问自己—— 我们该如何以一种能够扩展人类自主能力、而不是削弱它的方式来建设技术？ That is more true today than ever before. Said another way: we must move quickly into the future while continuously asking ourselves: “How can we build technology in a way that expands human agency, rather than eroding it?” 让人类区别于地球上所有其他生命、并使我们得以繁荣发展的关键之一，就是我们不断创造新的技术。 我们是技术人（Homo techne）。 A thing that makes humans different from all other life on earth –– and has allowed us to flourish –– is that we continue to build technologies. We are homo techne. 技术让某些事情变得更加可能，但这些可能性有时也伴随着极端的风险。它们被视为善或恶，取决于人类如何使用它们。 作为设计者、创新者、建设者、投资者和应用者， 我们有责任让技术的发展朝着善的方向塑造。 Technologies make certain things much more possible, and sometimes those possibilities have extreme risks. They are defined as good or bad depending on how they are used. It’s upon us as designers, innovators, builders, investors, and deployers to shape technology for the good. 我们如何构建技术，才能在‘人类自主性’与‘创新’之间取得平衡，这是一个复杂而微妙的问题。但可以肯定的是，答案绝不是在‘全面加速（e/acc）’与‘每月暂停呼吁信’之间做二元选择。 *How* we build technology that balances human agency and innovation is a difficult, nuanced conversation. Surely, however, the answer is not a binary choice between e/acc or monthly pause letters. 之所以难以找到答案，是因为我们理应、也必须持续加速前进，但我们不能只踩油门——我们还应该握好方向盘。 It is difficult to find the answer because we should and must keep accelerating, but we should use more than just the gas pedal. We should also use the steering wheel. 渴望建设一个更有道德、更富足的社会，这并不是‘令人尴尬’的想法。 在科技领域中，无论身处哪个层级，我们大多数人都相信这一点——并在为之努力。 It is not “cringe” to continue to want to build more moral, more abundant societies. Most of us in tech, at all levels, believe this –– and try to do it.