工业革命的终极目标很可能就是软件化,统摄未来所有革命的或许也是软件。如果任由现状发展,那么我们很可能会进入一个失业严重的时期,相伴而生的将是社会混乱。这种混乱的后果是难以估量的。我们习惯性地认为信息是免费的,但由于经济总体大多与信息相关,因此免费只是一种并不存在的幻象。时至今日,我们仍旧可以认为,传播、媒体和软件的运作取决于信息的 The ultimate goal of the industrial revolution is most likely to be software-based and perhaps all the revolutions of the future, perhaps also software. If left unattended, then we are likely to enter a period of serious unemployment, accompanied by social chaos. The consequences of such confusion are immeasurable. We habitually think that information is free, but because the economy is mostly information-related, free is simply a non-existent illusion. To this day, we can still say that the operation of communication, media and software depends on the information