科技英语endofPCera总汇.pptx

;P1 You hear a lot these days about the coming demise of the personal computer, but the reality is more complicated and more interesting. Researchers, analyst and other pundits predict that an explosion of intelligent networked, single-purpose devices will replace the all-purpose, one-size-fits-all PC. 最近你听到很多关于个人电脑即将结束的说法。但是实际情况更加复杂、有趣。研究人员、分析家和其他专业权威预言道，智能网络化的单一用途装置将替代多用途、多功能合一的个人电脑。;The PC is too complicated. It’s too hard to use. It’s too big. Users are fed up. Meanwhile, prices are falling so rapidly that it will soon be impossible to make money on them. Many predict a cell-phone model for PCs: you get the box free but pay for the Internet connection. 个人电脑太复杂、太难使用、体积太大。用户已经受够了。同时，个人电脑的价格下降得太快了，以至于买家们很快就要无法从中获利。很多人预言， ;P2 So, businesses (and consumers) will dump the PC and embrace easier-to-use network computers, intelligent wallets, networked refrigerators, “ubiquitous computing” offices, smart phones, wired home and wearable computers, according to this line of thinking. 所以根据这一思路，企业（和消费者）将会抛弃个人电脑，转向接受更容易使用的网络计算机、智能钱夹、网络冰箱、普遍存在的计算机联机的办公室、智能电话、连线家用机和佩戴式计算机。 ;P3 There’s truth in all this. Companies are feverishly pumping out cool new devices that existed previously only in science fiction. They’ll be cheap, useful and ubiquitous. But like most paradigm shifts, this one brings erroneous predictions of the demise of what came before. Radio was supposes to kill books. TV was supposed to kill radio. And so on. 这一切的真相是这样的。企业们正在狂热地推出那些曾经只存在于科幻小说的炫酷新型设备。这些设备将会变得廉价、有用并且普遍存在。但是正像大多数情况一样，这使人们对以前发生的事物总会作出消亡的错误预言。如误以为收音机的出现会使书籍消失，电视机的出现会淘汰掉收音机，等等。 ;P4 Here’s what’s really happening. Despite the starry-eyed predictions of a world without PCs, the PC for good or ill, will be aroundfor the foreseeable future. However, it will cede its place at the center of the industry. 真正发生的事情是这样的。尽管人们对个人电脑将被世界淘汰抱有过分乐观的预测，但是个人电脑，不管是好是坏，都将仍然在可预见到的将来广泛存在。不过它将退出在产业界的中心地位。;P6 When Windows first came out, Microsoft hoped the new DOS shell would one day ship on most PCs. That milestone was passed