本文要谈论的不是所有的印刷物都将转向CD-ROM,只是谈论那些信息离度密集的图书。我也将谈到CD-ROM的前景。在英国,目前还没有制造CD-ROM的能力,也没有CD-ROM的商业性产品。所有现存的CD-ROM的出版物都是进口的。未来是肯定的,虽然谁也没有经历过未来。也没有通向未来的地图。然而,我可以作出一些推断,尽管我将铭记着推断与马克·吐温所说的花椰菜之间的联系。马克·吐温说,花椰菜是受 This article is not about all of the prints going to CD-ROMs, but about those books that are more information-intensive. I will also talk about the future of CD-ROM. In the UK, there is currently no CD-ROM manufacturing capability and no commercial CD-ROM products. All existing CD-ROM publications are imported. The future is for sure, though no one has experienced the future. There is no map to the future. However, I can make some inferences, though I will bear in mind the inference of the link with Mark Twain’s cauliflower. Mark Twain says cauliflower is affected