多为教程 通达 英语第169单元逐段翻译.doc

Unit one What Will Be 1. We’ve now acknowledged some fundamental ancient human forces and the ways they will affect and be affected by the Information Marketplace. 我们已经认识到，人类具有一些基本的原始力量，也知道这些力量和信息市场如何相互作用。 And throughout the course of this book we’ve answered the questions we raised at the very beginning. 在这本书里，我们对最初提出的问题做了解答。 So it is time to finally consider the greatest transformation that the Information Marketplace has to offer. 现在该来考虑信息市场必须提供的最大的转型了。 To get to it, let’s reconstruct the growing crescendo of key discoveries we have made, which together describe “what will be”. 为了阐述这个问题，让我们重新整理一下我们已有的重大发现，通过这些发现我们可以描述出“未来世界”。 2. We began with a simple but far-reaching model of the future world of information as an Information Marketplace, where people and their computers will buy, sell, and freely exchange information. 我们从一个看似简单却影响深远的未来信息世界模式入手。我们把它当做一个信息市场，人们可以亲自或用计算机在哪里购买、出售和自由地交换信息。 Our first discovery was that this Information Marketplace can indeed be built on a technological foundation: the information infrastructure. 我们的第一个发现是：这个信息市场确实能够建立在科技的基础上，即信息的基础设施上。 We went on to explore the many human-machine interfaces people will use to get in and out of this new edifice, from virtual reality and fancy bodysuits to the lowly keyboard, and singled out speech interfaces as perhaps the most significant and imminent. 接下来，我们探索了许多人们用来出入这座信息大厦的人机界面，在此交换的东西应有尽有，从虚拟现实、奇异的紧身裤到普通的键盘。我们从中挑选出或许是最重要、最紧迫的语音接口。 We explored the pipes that will carry out information and the ways we will bend them to give us the speed, reliability and security we need. 探究了可携带信息的渠道，研究了那些将给我们提供速度、可靠性与安全性的途径。 We also saw how a vast array of new shared software tools will evolve on this infrastructure, shifting the attention of the entire software business from individual to interconnected computers. 我们还注意到这个信息基础设施如何产生出一大批新的共享软件工具，从而使整个软件业把注意力从个人电脑转向互联网电脑。 The arrival of this foundation is certain, but it could be delayed by a decide or more if the key players continue their wars for control and the