小人物时代的来临如果说我们这一代人生逢其时,那并不意味着我们住过更高的楼房或者开过更快的汽车,而很可能是由于我们亲眼见证了一个新时代的开始:互联网在新旧千年之交的时刻出现在这个世界上,虽然还满是诞生时的泡沫与婴儿初啼般的不知所云,但它无疑将发育成未来人类社会赖以维系生存的一条主动脉。在一些科学幻想作品中,更为极端的预测是,它可能生长为机器统治人类的历史终结者。至少在我们这个时代里,所有有关互联网的词汇还都是朝气蓬勃、积极向上的。不单全世界的资本家争先恐后地将自己的油坊酒 The Advent of the Small Age If our generation was at its turn, it did not mean that we lived in taller buildings or opened faster cars, probably because we had witnessed the beginning of a new era: the Internet It is in this world that the birth of the new millenium has come into existence. Although it is still full of birth bubbles and infants crying, it will undoubtedly develop into an aorta that future human society depends on for survival. In some sci-fi works, the more extreme prediction is that it may grow into a historical terminator of machines governing humanity. At least in our time, all the vocabulary of the Internet is also vibrant, positive and progressive. Not only are the world’s capitalists vying to own their oil distilleries