【TED】是一個會議的名稱，它是英文technology,entertainment, design三個單詞的首字母縮寫。它是社會各界精英交流的盛會，這里有當代最杰出的思想家，這里有當代最優(yōu)秀的科學家，這里有迸發(fā)著最閃耀的思想火花，這里孕育著最光輝的夢想。
Graham Hill:
Graham Hill is the founder of ; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability, and tweets at @GHill.

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billion sq. ft.
environmental
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flat-lined
What's in the box? Whatever it is must be pretty important, because I've traveled with it, moved it, from apartment to apartment to apartment. Sound familiar? Did you know that we Americans have about 3 times the amount of space we did 50 years ago? 3 times. So you'd think, with all this extra space, we'd plenty of room for all our stuff.Right？ Nope. There's a new industry in town, a 22 billion-dollar, 2.2 billion sq. ft. industry: that of personal storage. So we've got triple the space, but we've become such good shoppers that we need even more space. So where does this lead? Lots of credit card debt, huge environmental footprints, and perhaps not coincidentally, our happiness levels flat-lined over the same 50 years.
猜猜看這個箱子里有什么？ 至少是些要緊的東西吧 畢竟不管我去哪兒，搬到哪兒 都帶著這個箱子呢 你們也干過差不多的事兒吧？ 說起來你們知不知道 跟50年前的美國人相比 我們有了3倍多的空間？ 整整三倍啊！ 那你可能會說，既然空間更多了 那肯定夠我們放各種東西了 非也非也。 要知道現(xiàn)在有個新興產(chǎn)業(yè) 價值220億美元、累計占地22億平方英尺 而作用就是為客戶提供存儲空間 雖然我們有了三倍多的空間 但我們的消費能力增長得更快 因此我們實際上需要更多的空間 那這一切的后果有哪些呢？ 比如大量的信用卡貸款 對環(huán)境的巨大影響 還有這50年里停滯不前的幸福水平 而這最后一點恐怕并非無巧不成書