But it's nothing like microchips, which sometimes confuses us to think that exponential improvement can just show up everywhere.

但是芯片完全不一样，芯片指数级别进步随处可见，有时让我们困惑。

And well, more than 15 years later, things haven't turned out exactly the way he'd hoped.

而且，十多年后，事情并不完全如他所愿。

For me, the most glaring errors I find on the re-read have to do with character motivation (related to character development but not quite the same) .

我看来，重读过程中最刺眼错误多半关系到人动机（与人相关，但不完全是一回事）。

Ignoring it or condemning it won't kill it off; it simply forces it underground where it lurks undeveloped, prone to latch onto inappropriate targets.

忽视它，或者是谴责它并不会将其赶尽杀绝，而只是会将它赶到地下，而潜伏状态下，它并不完全，很容易抓住那些不合适目标。

Yet their present development is wholly different, not so much because of different people even, but because of the different thoughts that exist in the minds of their inhabitants.

但是，它们目前程度完全不一样。倒不是因为人民不同，而是由于存于居民头脑中思想不同。

On the view of descent with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is comparatively simple; and we can understand to a large extent the laws governing their imperfect development.

从变异遗传观点看， 残迹器官起源比较简单；我们可以很大程度上理解支配它们不完全规律。

This may sound a little weird because I was reading from my own text here that I typed up first to get the story out, and then it didn't go exactly as planned.

听起来可能有点奇怪，因为我刚才念自己事先打好文字来讲述个故事，结果事情并不完全如计划那样。