在地铁站看到一位未成年人,右手卡路里源 ,左手比特接口。
在走读时代,我一定要在家中的饭桌上吃过早餐,才会出门。若是煤炉不慎熄火,也有一碗加了荷包蛋的方便面。途中没有电子娱乐设备,或读书、或听 Family Album U.S.A. 的录音带。
据说“网友”们想不明白,为何“现在社会上有很多戾气”?不过是“社会上多了很多(出卖)力气(为生的人)”——开豪车的不一定是好人,敲屏幕甚至敲键盘的,就都不是“力工”吗?
时代确实不同了。
It's hard to believe, but human behavior regarding digital tools has remained largely unchanged since that year. The only thing that has evolved rapidly is the technology itself.
‘I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number one video cassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. Beavis and Bullhead remains popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning - not just of science, but of anything - are avoidable, even undesirable.’
——Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, 1995
What a year, 1984!
You had two and half or three hours in the cinema. And 'one big computer which has everything that is known about everybody in the country'?
What a long journey!
My research into the myth about 'The 70-30 braking rule for motorcycles' took me from an automotive media editor, a Wikipedia enthusiast, a racing school that went out of business in 2008, to the US DoD and BMW (automobile), as well as David L. Hough and Honda.
Tony Foale, Kevin Cameron and Professor Vittore Cossalter are not on this list.