The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

互联网就像蒸汽机一样,是一项改变世界的技术突破。

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The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

对我来说,最大的突破是,一旦我不再讨厌保守派,能够真正看到他们在哪些方面是正确的,他们向我展示了自由派在很多方面是错误的。但与此同时,我认为自由主义者在某些方面是正确的,而保守派却难以看到。

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

有时我觉得我不仅是引擎,而且是车尾。我必须坐在前面的车里,向前开,同时在后面跑,把每个人都推到我的后面。

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

我想我最感兴趣的两件事是望远镜和蒸汽机。我父亲是一名打谷机蒸汽机的工程师,我喜欢这种机器。

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

历史性变化和挑战。人类知识和机遇的突破。然而,对全球各地的大多数人来说,日常现实并没有改变。