"And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment," Gordon says that by and large, "you could use today's data and feel fairly confident."

“如果你需要预测人类不久后的身高来设计一个设备的话，”戈登概括说，“你可以相当自信地使用当今的数据。”

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The bottom-up approach tends to lead to poor business-service abstractions in case the design is dictated by the existing IT environment, rather than existing and future business needs.

在设计取决于现有的 IT 环境而不是现在和将来的业务需要的情况下，自底向上的方法往往会导致不好的业务服务抽象。

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This future aircraft design concept for supersonic flight over land comes from the team led by the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

上图这款在低空飞行的未来飞机是来自洛克希德·马丁旗下团队所设计的一款超音速概念飞机。

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Any future design would also be built to withstand damage caused by disasters such as tidal waves and earthquakes.

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Nevertheless, the quickly scuttled design served as an unofficial template for future phones by showing how the web and video could benefit from a large canvas.

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The competition is organized annually by the Electrolux Group and aims to encourage students from around the world to design household appliances for the future.

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