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任何新技术的发展都极有可能与原先的预测截然不同。如果回过头去看一看19世纪末的电话、20世纪初的汽车、或者20世纪中期的计算机,你就不难看出,当时谁也无从预测这些发明会如何实际应用。同样,现在也没有人能具体地预测信息高速公路将如何运作。 然而,信息高速公路竟如此引入注目,激动人心！为了弄清楚哪些是宣传、哪些是真实情况,《大众科学》的一组编辑对信息高速公路现象作了一番筛选,结果写成了这篇以问答形式提出的指南。 在这里,作者们只是根据目前掌握的知识对最有可能出现的结果做一番介绍。信息高速公路最惊人和最有价值的用途很可能还没有想到。
The development of any new technology is very likely to be very different from the original forecast. If you look back at the late 1800s, the early 20th century cars, or the computers of the mid-20th century, you can easily see that no one was able to predict how these inventions would actually be used at the time. Similarly, no one can predict specifically how the information highway will work now. However, the information superhighway is so noticeable and exciting! In order to understand what is publicity and what is real, a team of editors at Popular Science selected the phenomenon of the information superhighway and the result was written as a guideline in the form of question and answer. Here, the authors simply present the most probable result based on the current knowledge available. The most amazing and valuable use of the information highway is probably not yet thought out.