It is in reality a technological civilization.

它实际上是一种技术文明。

What precise characteristics does technological civilization present?

3. 科技文明具体表现出哪些特点？

The development of technological civilization is a third barrier.

技术文明的发展是第三个障碍。

With what is technological civilization associated?

5. 技术文明与什么有关？

Dyson suggested that any other technological civilization in the universe would likely follow a similar power consumption pattern to that of humans.

戴森认为宇宙中高科技的文明在能源消耗的方面也会遵循人类的足迹。

Considered with respect to its intrinsic nature, technological civilization presents certain precise characteristics.

就其内在本质而言， 技术文明呈现出某些明确的特征。

He gave us a way to estimate the number of technological civilizations that are out there.

他给了我们一种方法来估计现有技术文明的数量。

But there is another option: maybe the Great Filter lies in technological civilizations themselves.

但还有另一种选择：也许大过滤器存在于技术文明本身。

I think, rather, that we are the stupidest possible species that is capable of creating technological civilization.

相反，我认为我们是能够创造技术文明的最愚蠢的物种。

As a rule, it takes energy to build and grow a technological civilization and harnessing massive amounts of energy has some impact on a civilization's environment.

通常，建立和发展技术文明需要能源，而利用大量能源会对文明的环境产生一定影响。

Whether or not we are ever able to find another technological civilization might depend on the question of if civilizations can harness energy without destroying their own future.

我们是否能够找到另一个技术文明可能取决于文明是否能够在不破坏自身未来的情况下利用能源的问题。

Decades before we discovered the first exoplanet, one scientist asked what we'd need to know in order to know whether another intelligent, technological civilization is, or was, or might one day be out there.

在我们发现第一颗系外行星的几十年前，一位科学家问我们需要知道什么才能知道另一个智能科技文明是否现在、过去或将来可能存在。

The likelihood of two technological civilizations evolving at the same time, in  the same galaxy, may be exceptionally low; but this is one of many hypotheses in a  diverse and largely abstract field of study.

两个技术文明在同一个星系中同时进化的可能性可能非常低；但这是一个多样化且很大程度上抽象的研究领域中的众多假设之一。

If the records of patent offices, the statistics of production, and the reports of laboratories furnish evidence worthy of credence, technological civilization, instead of showing signs of contraction, threatens to overcome and transform the whole globe.

如果专利局的记录、生产统计数据和实验室报告提供了值得信赖的证据，那么技术文明非但没有显示出收缩的迹象，反而有可能征服并改变整个地球。

In a paper written back in 1960 by Freeman Dyson titled, " Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation" Dyson suggested that any other technological civilization in the universe would likely follow a similar power consumption pattern to that of humans.

在弗里曼·戴森于 1960 年写的一篇题为《人工恒星红外辐射源的搜寻》的论文中，戴森提出，宇宙中任何其他技术文明都可能遵循与人类类似的能源消耗模式。