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这本书是个大胆尝试,通过对贝尔实验室以来整个信息产业的发展史梳理,指出,开放并非其发展的动力。作者吴修铭强调,信息产业一直以来就在开放和封闭之间来回摆动,前者代表着开放的理想社会形态:电话、无线电、互联网和电影技术等新技术创建者的梦想;后者则代表着完善的封闭系统:新技术被企业家窃取并用封闭的产品套装,辅以政府政策许可乃至保护的垄断体制,在为消费者带来应用便利的同时,着眼于消灭可能对其造成利益损害的创新。
This book is a bold attempt to sort out the history of the entire information industry since Bell Labs pointed out that opening up is not the driving force for its development. The author, Wu Xiu-ming, emphasizes that the information industry has been swinging back and forth between openness and closure. The former represents an open ideal social formation: the dream of new technology creators such as telephone, radio, Internet and film technology. The latter represents a sound Closed Systems: New technologies that are stealed by entrepreneurs and packaged with closed products, supplemented by government policies permitting and even protecting monopolies provide consumers with ease of use while at the same time eliminating any potential innovations that could harm them.