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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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

电脑的问题之一,尤其是对老年人来说,是他们被电脑搞糊涂了,而电脑已经变得更好了。它们变得更容易使用了。它们变得更便宜了。软件接口使事情变得更容易访问。

There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

杀毒软件有一个主要的问题:它需要更新。用户根本就不能指望拥有杀毒软件,更不用说能够或愿意为更新付费了。