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一百五十年前,人类还不知道飞机、汽丰、电灯,甚至连煤油灯也还没发明。在较短的时期内人类获得了大量的物品,共计约有2000万种。二三百年前,人类使用的物品不超过20万种,即是说是今天使用物品的百分之一左右。这是怎么回事呢?为何人类在数千年里只创造了今天使用的物品的百分之一,而最近二三百年却创速了百分之九十九呢?这个过程将持续多久呢?以后的情况又怎样呢?历史学家、哲学家、经济学家和未来学家正在研究这些问题,当今经济实践也紧紧围绕着这些问题。此外,还有这样一个问题:为何几千年前达到鼎盛的古代文明不能取得较年轻的欧洲文化所取得的如此巨大的成就呢?为何正是欧洲文化几乎传遍全世界,在短时期里从根本上改造了物质生产——社会发展的整个基础的方法技术和组织呢?
One hundred and fifty years ago, humans still did not know that planes, steamships, lights, and even kerosene lamps were not invented yet. In a relatively short period of time, humans have acquired a large number of items, totaling about 20 million species. Two or three hundred years ago, no more than 200,000 articles were used by mankind, which means about one percent of articles used today. What happened? Why did humanity create only one percent of the items used today for thousands of years, but the last two hundred and three hundred years has accelerated by 99%? How long will this process last? What happened in the future? Historians, philosophers, economists and futurists are studying these issues, and today's economic practice is also closely around these issues. In addition, there is a question as to why the ancient civilization that reached its peak thousands of years ago failed to achieve such a tremendous achievement as the younger European culture. Why is it that European culture has spread almost all over the world in the short period of time Fundamentally transformed the method and organization of material production - the entire basis of social development?