Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

  • -- Greg Egan 格雷格·伊根

散居从现在开始大约一千年。人类文明的大部分已经进入了计算机时代;本质上,我们后代的一个主要分支是由有意识的软件组成的。

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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

为什么我们不能给我们的老师一张免费获得软件的许可证,所有的软件,任何软件?是否有人在每次教孩子字母表的时候都要收取许可费?

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

我认为,交互式计算机和软件将提供一种成本更低的方法来进行某些类型的查询,包括知识获取,甚至推理和交互。