We began to have electric lights, and telephones, and to see horseless carriages, but our attitude was a mixture of wonder, fear, and doubt.

我们开始拥有了电灯，电话，不用马拉的车，但是我们是疑虑、害怕和怀疑的混合体。

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Of course, there was no stopping the automotive breakthrough, and it wasn't long before people were trading their old gray mares for horseless carriages.

当然，汽车工业的突飞猛进无可阻挡，没过多久，人们就开始用自己的灰色母马交换不使用马匹的车辆了。

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Y：I know, but cars are so rigidly mechanical, you know, it’s like when we removed the horses to make horseless carriages; they took away the only intelligent part of the carriages!

我们用汽车代替马车，但是却卸下了马车唯一智能的部分。

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Think back to how horseless carriages, modern architecture, and print journalism yielded to cars, post-modern structures, and social media.

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These social trends may be just as significant for the automobile industry as the original shift to horseless carriages a century ago.

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