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But inventions shape all of us and it is worth noticing when techno-social habits do change, and asking whether to control them a bit or shield the youngest.

但发明塑造着我们所有人，当技术带来的社会习惯确实发生变化时，值得我们留意，并思考是否要对其稍加控制，或者保护好年龄最小的孩子们。

Thanks to his invention, we have a real chance to decrease the world’s carbon emissions.

多亏了他的发明，我们才有了切实的机会减少全球碳排放。

After writing two books about the history of inventions, one thing I’ve learnt is that while it is the enchantingly sophisticated technologies that get all the hype, it’s the cheap technologies that change the world.

在写了两本关于发明史的书之后，我明白了一件事：虽然备受追捧的是那些精妙迷人的复杂技术，但真正改变世界的却是廉价的技术。

are one of the world’s most significant inventions.

是世界上最重要的发明之一。

Sophisticated technologies develop from small inventions.

复杂技术由小发明发展而来。

In a paper published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, researchers said that the western nuclear family was a recent invention which broke with evolutionary history.

在发表于《儿童心理学与精神病学杂志》的一篇论文中，研究人员称，西方的核心家庭是近代才出现的，它与人类的进化历史背道而驰。