There's nothing high-tech about this social technology.

这种社交技术没有什么高科技。

And these are questions of social technology, not rockets and hardware.

这些是社会技术的问题，而不是火箭和硬件。

But they also include cultural or social technologies, like the idea of the assembly line and mass production.

但它们也包括文化或社会技术，如流水线和大规模生产的理念。

Language is a piece of social technology for enhancing the benefits of cooperation -- for reaching agreements, for striking deals and for coordinating our activities.

语言是一种社会技术，可以增进合作的好处——达成共同意见，完成交易，协调我们的活动。

This is a very difficult needle to thread, but they will need to thread this needle if we are to achieve the promise of social technologies while avoiding their peril.

这是一根很难穿的针，但如果我们要实现社会技术的承诺， 同时避免它们的危险， 他们就需要穿这根针。

Now, living with 20 people might sound kind of crazy, but over the years, it enabled us to create a high-trust group that allowed us to experiment with these social technologies.

现在，和 20 个人一起生活听起来有点疯狂，但多年来，它使我们能够创建一个高度信任的群体， 让我们能够试验这些社交技术。