英特尔对未来50年科技发展作出评估

40%的受访者认为，在未来50年里，新兴技术除了带来解决方案的同时，也会引发同样多的问题。

40 percent believe emerging technologies will introduce as many new problems as solutions in the next 50 years.

这一发现来自于英特尔对1000名消费者进行的“下一个50年”调研，这一调研与研究公司PSB联合开展，旨在了解人们对未来科技的主流看法。

This finding comes from Intel’s “Next 50” Study of 1,000 consumers, conducted with research firm PSB, to determine prevailing perceptions about the future of technology.

即使消费者期待新技术，但他们最感性的依然是自己最熟悉的事物。研究显示，消费者预计未来对智能手机的依赖性最强（87%）。

Even as consumers anticipate new technologies, they remain most excited about those that are most familiar. The survey revealed that consumers expect to rely most on smartphones (87 percent) in the future.

此外，消费者认为个人电脑（84%）和智能家居技术（84%）属于下一个50年最重要的几样技术。

Consumers also ranked PCs (84 percent) and smart home technology (84 percent) among the most important technologies in the next 50 years.

在新兴技术中，消费者最感兴趣的是那些有可能提高健康水平的技术，其中包括基因医学（39%）、用于器官或组织移植的人造材料（26%）以及可再生能源（36%）。

Among emerging technologies, consumers reported being the most excited about those with the potential to improve health, including genomic medicine (39 percent) and artificial materials for organ or tissue transplants (26 percent), as well as renewable energy (36 percent).

虽然大多数消费者与亲朋好友保持联系需要高度依赖科技（53%），但很多受访者表示，他们担心人们会对科技产生过度依赖，减少了彼此之间的互动时间（56%）。

While most consumers rely heavily on technology to stay in touch with friends and family (53 percent), many respondents reported that they fear people will develop an overdependence on technology and will spend less time interacting with each other (56 percent).