这是一个技术玩具时代,人们疯狂购买大量昂贵而无用的东西。不是电子的,人们会把它变成电子的,已经是电子的,人们会把它和别的电子技术合成,使体积更小巧,操作更复杂。一句话,人们正努力用技术产品改变自己生活和工作的方式。不久前,《时代周刊》评出2000年度最令人侧目的十大数字技术产品,用该刊的话来说,“一个流行滑稽表演的时代正朝我们走来。” This is a technology toy era when people are crazy about buying lots of expensive and useless stuff. It is not electronic. People turn it into electronic. It is already electronic, and people will combine it with other electronic technologies to make it smaller and more complex. In short, people are trying to change the way they live and work with technological products. Not long ago, Time magazine named the top ten digital technology products of the year 2000, and in the journal’s words, “The era of a popular comic is approaching us.”