20世纪初期充满了关于飞机、汽车或工厂装配线使议会民主、市场经济、陪审团审判和人权法案变得无足轻重、过时而有害的预言。今天以航天飞机和互联网为代表的科技革命使20世纪初的技术--它的双翼飞机、老式T型发动机小汽车和影片《摩登时代》中的齿轮工厂--看来就像古怪的遗迹。然而,所有那些被当时的 The early twentieth century was filled with predictions that inscriptions, cars or factory assembly lines made parliamentary democracy, market economy, jury trials and bills of rights trivial, outdated and harmful. Today's technological revolution, represented by the space shuttle and the Internet, made early twentieth-century technology - its biplane, the old T-car and the Gear Factory in the movie “The Modern Times” - look like weird relics. However, all those were then