This book is about the future of technology. In it we will examine some of the many recent developments in a few key fields and try, in a limited way, to forecast where they will take us in the next fifteen years or so.
本书讲述的是技术的未来。书中,我们将检视大量的近期发展中的一些关键领域,有限地预测,在未来15年左右 ,这些发展将带我们走向何方。
If that sounds like a modest goal, it’s not.
听起来这是个适度的目标,但不是。
(Technology is the dominant force of our time and probably of all time to come. It appears in more varieties than we can count).
(技术是我们这个时代,并有可