21. 数字化的未来 “ every child can stretch a hand across a keyboard and reach every book ever written, every painting ever painted, every symphony ever composed.“ 每个孩子可以通过伸手可及的键盘,阅读写过的每一本书、欣赏画过的每一幅油画、聆听谱过每一首交响曲。 -- Bill Clinton January 1998. H. G. Wells, World Brain , “ 现在没有任何困难阻碍我们对于所有人类知识、想法和成就进行有效的索引,保存这个星球上所有人类的记忆。 There is no practical obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements, to the creation, that is, of a complete planetary memory for all mankind.” “ 总有那么一天人类能够发明可移动的记录技术,把当今的所有图书报刊杂志等各类信息载体,经过压缩之后装载在一辆面包车中运走”“ If the human race has produced since the invention of movable type a total record, in the form of magazines, newspapers, books, tracts, advertising blurbs, correspondence, having a volume corresponding to a billion books, the whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van.” – Vannevar Bush, As We May Think .