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Once upon a time, societies were organized around religion, farming, trade or industry.
曾經(jīng)，社會(huì)圍繞著宗教，耕種，貿(mào)易或者工業(yè)組織而成。
In many parts of the world today this is still true, but something else is becoming more important - the exchange of information and the technology that we use to do this.
如今，在世界上的許多地方，這仍然存在。但是其它的一些東西正變得越來(lái)越重要——信息交流以及我們進(jìn)行信息交流所用的技術(shù)。
Twenty-four-hour news, E-commerce, mobile phones, Global Positioning Systems... all these are making the world smaller and faster.
24小時(shí)新聞資訊、電子商務(wù)、手機(jī)、全球定位系統(tǒng)……所有的這些都將世界變得愈來(lái)愈小，愈來(lái)愈快。
The growth in telecommunications is giving more and more people access to the science that will help their country to develop or to acquire the medical knowledge that can fight disease.
通訊的發(fā)展，讓愈來(lái)愈多的人可以接觸到科學(xué)，這將幫助他們的國(guó)家拓展或者獲取能夠?qū)辜膊〉尼t(yī)學(xué)知識(shí)。
But how can everybody in the world share the recent technological advances?
但是，如何才能讓世界上的每一個(gè)人分享到最新的技術(shù)進(jìn)步呢？
Millions of people cannot read these words because they don't have access to a computer.
數(shù)以百萬(wàn)的人無(wú)法讀到那些文字，因?yàn)樗麄儧](méi)有機(jī)會(huì)接觸電腦。
They don't understand English either.
他們也不懂英語(yǔ)。
They don't even have a telephone.
他們甚至沒(méi)有電話。
They are more worried about how far they will have to walk today to get clean water or if they can feed themselves and their families.
更令他們擔(dān)心的是，今天他們需要步行多少路程才可以獲得干凈的水源或者他們是否可以養(yǎng)活自己和家人。
For most people on this planet, information is not a priority.
對(duì)于世界上的大多數(shù)人來(lái)說(shuō)，信息并不是他們優(yōu)先考慮的事。
The United Nations is now trying to make the information society a reality for more of the developing world.
聯(lián)合國(guó)正努力使更多的發(fā)展中國(guó)家實(shí)現(xiàn)信息化社會(huì)。
Ten years from now, the plan is that everybody in the world will have a radio or television and that 50% of the world's population will have access to the Internet from schools and universities, health centers and hospitals, libraries and museums.
十年之后的計(jì)劃是世界上的每一個(gè)人都將擁有一臺(tái)收音機(jī)或電視機(jī)，并且世界上一半的人口都能接觸到學(xué)校、大學(xué)、健康中心和醫(yī)院、圖書館和博物館的因特網(wǎng)。
This will improve medical care and education, science and agriculture, business opportunities and employment.
這將會(huì)提高醫(yī)療服務(wù)和教育、科學(xué)和農(nóng)業(yè)、商機(jī)和就業(yè)。
