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The Information Superhighway
信息高速公路
Professional Terms
專業術語
information superhighway
信息高速公路
cellular mobile telephone
蜂窩狀移動電話
national information infrastructure
國家信息基礎設施
wireless
無線電
I am pleased to announce today that at the beginning of the New Year.
我很高興在今天、新一年的開始宣布，
President Clinton will present to Congress a package of legislative and administrative proposals on telecommunications.
克林頓總統將向全國會提出關于電信的立法和行政的一攬子建議。
These changes coming in the related fields of telecommunications and computing and telephony and other related fields.
電信、計算機和電話以及其他相關領域技術的發展
are going to make up one of the most powerful revolutions in the entire history of human kind.
將共同形成人類歷史上一次最強大的革命。
Today most people are primarily receivers of information through the electronic media.
今天，大多數人主要是通過電子媒體接收信息。
We watch television,we listen to the radio.
比如看電視、聽收音機。
In this coming decade,we will each transmit more and more information as well over the same lines of communication.
今后十年，我們將在相同的通信路上傳輸更多的信息。
We'll send and receive not just on the telephone as we do now,but across the full range of the new technologies.
我們不只是像現在這樣通過電話來發送和接收信息，而是要使用各種新技術。
Each person will turn from being Just a consumer to being a consumer and a provider.
每個人都將從單純的用戶變成既是用戶又是信息的提供者。
In a way this change represents anther kind of enpowerment.
這一變化在某種意義上代表了另一種授權。
The quality revolution in the factory treats each individual as a source of added value.
工廠的質量革命將每一部門視為一個增值源。
The communications revolution recognizes each individual as a source of information that adds value to our community and to our economy.
通信革命則將每一部門視為社會和經濟的增長值信息源。
Interactive television will mean holding a business meeting without leaving your living room.
交互式電視將意味著不離開起居室就能召開工作會議。
It will mean that people at home can use the television set not simply as passive entertainment but as an active tool.
這是說家用電視不僅僅是消極的娛樂，而是一個有用的工具。
These changes are coming not over night or out of the blue,rather they are the outgrowth of a steady series of changes that encompass much of our history.
正在發生的這些變化不是一個晚上或突然間就可以實現的，而是在經歷了一系列重大變化的基礎上產生的結果。
