观照人与机器的关系,是工业革命以来长期的文学主题。机器以两种不同的方式先后存在:在工业机器时代,机器大量聚集在厂房中,消耗煤和油,发出巨大的噪音,将人群驱赶到一起,使之协作生产,机器及其厂房构成了城市的核心;现在,世界进入了一个新的机器时代———机器不仅在工厂中,而且进入家庭中 Viewing the relationship between man and machine is the long-held literary theme since the industrial revolution. The machinery existed in two different ways: In the era of industrial machines, machines gathered in large numbers in factories, consuming coal and oil, making loud noises, driving crowds together and making them collaboratively produced, and the machines and their factories constituted cities At the heart of the world; the world has now entered a new era of machines --- machines not only in the factory but also in the home