Today, San Diego's North Torrey Pines Road is a congested thoroughfare lined with gleaming high-rises, low-slung modernist office blocks and towering steel cranes. It's difficult to imagine what the epicentre of the city's science and technology community must have looked like before its boom days in the early 1990s. Inder Verma, a senior scientist at San Deigo's prestigious Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has seen the landscape change beyond compare since he arrived more than two decades ago. "That used to be a hill," he says, indicating a local industrial park. "It was all wilderness. My daughter used to roam around here on her horse." A century of academic and military research is the foundation of the city's present prosperity, both scientific and financial. It began with the first marine research centre, included the foundation of several institutes including the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and comes up to date with the explosion of high-tech industries in the past few decades. An infrastructure for business has grown to serve sci-tech entrepreneurs, and these days even not-for-profit researchers have to think business if they want to work.
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机译：如今，圣地亚哥的北托里松树路已成为一条拥挤的通道，两旁闪闪发光的高楼大厦，低矮的现代办公大楼和高耸的钢制起重机。很难想象，在1990年代初的繁荣时期之前，这座城市的科学技术中心震撼力将是什么样子。 San Deigo享有盛名的Salk生物研究所的高级科学家Inder Verma自从他二十多年前来到美国以来，就已经看到了不可比拟的景观变化。他说：“那曾经是一座小山。” “到处都是荒野。我的女儿曾经骑着马在这里游荡。”百年的学术和军事研究是这座城市目前科学和金融繁荣的基础。它始于第一个海洋研究中心，包括加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）在内的数家研究所的成立，并且随着过去几十年高科技行业的爆炸式增长而发展。商业基础设施已经发展为为科技企业家服务，如今，即使非营利研究人员也要想工作就必须考虑商业。
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