技术的演变,就像文学的演变一样,在很大程度上依赖于路径。文化在技术的接受、采用和传播方面发挥着比我们许多人愿意承认的更重要的作用。
(The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.)