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Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and the grocer on the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies for tonight's dinner party. Pressing a couple of keys on the kitchen terminal, she order s from the memory bank her favorite recipes , tells the machine to compute the ingredients for six servings, and directs the ovens to reach the correct temperature for each dish according to the recipe, starting at 7:15 p. m. Alice then joins a televised discussion of Byzantine art (which she has studied by computer). Later she wanders into the computer room where Al ("Laddy") Jr. has just learned from his headset that his drill in Latin verb conjugation was " groovy ".
在電視屏幕上與肉店、面包店和雜貨店老板們進行面對面的商談之后，她按下一個按鈕，訂購當天晚宴所需的各種物品。接著，她又按下廚房計算機終端設備上的幾個按鈕，從計算機存儲器中調出一些她所喜愛的菜譜，指令計算機計算出六份飯菜所需的各種配料的數量，指示烤爐下午七點十五分點火，根據菜譜上的要求調節出烹飪各道菜時的合適溫度。接下來，艾麗斯參加了一場拜占廷藝術電視討論會(她是通過計算機學習拜占廷藝術的)。過后，她信步走進微機室。在那里，小阿拉迪剛從耳機中得知，他的拉丁語動詞變位練習成績"優良"。
Wellsian fantasy? Maybe. But while this matutinal scenario may still be years away, the basic technology is in xistence. Such painless, productive awakenings will in time be a familiar thing. And, barring headaches, tummy aches and heartaches, the American day should proceed as smoothly as it begins. All thanks to the miracle of the microcomputer, the super cheap chip that can electronically shoulder a vast array of boring, time-consuming tasks.
這完全是科學幻想嗎?也許是吧。但是，盡管以上描述的那一連串發生在早晨的事情還要過若干年后才能變成現實，實現這一切所需的基本技術業已問世。像以上描述的那種早晨舒舒服服地起來，不費多大勁卻能做好許多事情，這種情況將來會極為普通。只要沒有頭痛、胃痛和心痛，美國人一天的生活會過得像一天開始時一樣順暢。這一切全是由于微型計算機的神奇功能，使得那造價極低廉的集成電路片能用電子技術擔負起大量令人厭煩又耗費時間的工作。
The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians. At home or office, routine chores will be performed with astonishing efficiency and speed. Leisure time, greatly increased, will be greatly enriched. Public education, so often a dreary and capricious process in the U. S., may be invested with the inspiriting quality of an Oxford tutorial-from preschool on. Medical care will be delivered with greater precision.
微型電子技術革命可望減輕生活負擔，提高生活質量，簡化生活程序，而且這些美好前景是連幻想家們做夢也沒有想到過的。無論是家里還是辦公室里，日常瑣事都將以驚人的高效率和高速度得到處理;休閑時間不僅會大大增加，也會變得更加豐富多彩;在美國，常常是枯燥乏味、變化無常的公共教育也將會具有像牛津大學導師制教育那樣令人振奮的質量--從學前教育開始即是這樣。醫療衛生服務也會更加完善而少出差錯。
