翻译练习：How To Harness The Digital Transformation（2）

But technology can be a job creator, too. Increases in efficiency brought about by digital technology can help businesses expand. Digital platforms can create entirely new occupations and jobs. Businesses can reach out to remote markets lacking infrastructure. To reshape technology as a job creator, it's important to understand what, exactly, the current wave of technology is changing, and how policy makers and businesses can adapt to it.

不过技术也可以是岗位创造者。由数字技术导致的效率提高可以帮助企业扩张。数字平台可以创造全新的行业和岗位。企业可以触及缺乏基础设施的偏远市场。要重塑技术为岗位创造者，就要确切地理解当前这波技术正在改变什么，政策的制定者和企业可以如何适应变革。

The foundations of change.

变革的基础

Even before the pandemic struck, some features of the state of technological progress were especially salient.

即使在疫情冲击之前，技术进步的一些特征就已经非常显著。

First, technology was already disrupting production processes, especially through the rapid scaleup of digital platforms. Digital technology has been challenging the traditional boundaries of firms, changing global value chains and the geography of jobs. After all, technology decreases the costs of doing business, complementing investments in infrastructure, free trade agreements, and other liberalization efforts to reduce trade barriers, which in turn expands global value chains and changes the geography of jobs. New business models - digital platform firms - have been able to evolve rapidly from local start-ups to global behemoths, often with few employees or tangible assets. Digital platforms have enabled clusters of businesses to form in underdeveloped rural areas.

首先，技术已经破坏了生产过程，特别是通过数字平台的快速增加。数字技术已经在挑战传统公司的边界，改变全球价值链与就业的地理分布。毕竟，技术降低了企业的成本，补充了基础建设、自由贸易协定和其他旨在缩减贸易壁垒的自由化努力所进行的投资，这些又扩大了全球价值链，改变了就业的地理颁。新商业模式——数字平台公司——已经有能力从本地初创企业快速进化为全球独角兽，而其员工与有形资产却很少。数字平台甚至可以让不发达的农村地区聚集大量的企业。