This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Steve Mirsky.For this last episode in our podcast series on the stakes for science in this election, I talked about tech with Scientific American senior features editor Jen Schwartz.So Jen, what’s going in the world of, for simplicity’s sake, technology that will possibly be affected by this election?“So technology is such a huge category these days. It really depends how you define it.But at Scientific American, we sort of look at it as, you know, there’s the very high-end, whizbang innovation stuff and maybe the more traditional things we think about when we say technology, like machine learning and advanced therapeutics and things like this.But right now so much of what we’re dealing with in this country is the application of a lot of technologies or tools, if we want to simplify.And we’re sort of dealing with both the ramifications―the major ramifications of how technology has affected our society, the soul of our country, how we have been divided, how we get information.Or as one researcher, Claire Wardle, calls it, information disorder is what we’re up against.This feeling of overwhelm, of noise and just the polarization in this country―of how we just glean knowledge at this point, and how trust and information is transmitted.
这里是科学美国人――60秒科学系列，我是史蒂夫・米尔斯基。这是我们播客系列节目的最后一集，是关于这次选举与科学的利害关系 ，我和《科学美国人》的高级专题编辑珍・施瓦茨谈论了科技。所以，珍，简单地说，可能会受到这次选举影响的科技领域会发生什么?“ 因此，如今科技是一个如此庞大的类别。这真的取决于你如何定义它。但在《科学美国人》，我们把它看作是非常高端的，绝妙的创新，也许我们在谈到技术时想到的是更传统的事物，例如机器学习和先进疗法之类的东西。但是现在我们在这个国家要处理的很多事情都是大量技术或工具的应用，如果我们想要简化的话。我们在处理两方面的问题――科技如何影响我们的社会，影响我们国家的灵魂，影响我们是如何分裂的以及影响我们如何获取信息。或者正如研究人员克莱尔・沃德尔所说的，我们面临的是信息紊乱。有这种压倒一切的，嘈杂的，以及国家两极分化的感觉，我们在这种时候如何收集知识以及如何传播信任和信息。
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