We surely need no reminding that ours is a wired world. We are urged on all sides to get ourselves wired up. The sociable motto offered by the novelist E M Forster in his novel Howard's End seems to apply, hut with a different mealing: "only connect". The funny thing about all of this is that I grew up thinking that we were a as entering a fully wireless world. The wireless world that opened up at the beginning of the twentieth century would be a world of communications effected by waves, radi- ation, vibration, emanation; we would live as the angels had once been thought to live, in a world of instantaneously transmitted thoughts and impulses.
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机译：我们当然不需要提醒我们我们是一个有线世界。敦促我们各方面保持联系。小说家E M Forster在其小说《霍华德的尽头》中提出的社交座右铭似乎适用，但带有不同的用餐方式：“仅连接”。所有这一切的有趣之处在于，我从小就以为我们正进入一个完全无线的世界。二十世纪初开放的无线世界将是一个受到波，辐射，振动，辐射影响的通信世界。我们将像天使曾经被认为生活的世界一样生活在一个瞬间传递思想和冲动的世界中。
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