They paint a picture of a world in which individuals, companies, institutions, and governments must deal with two realities, one physical, and one virtual.

他们描绘了这样一个世界：个人、公司、机构和政府必须应对两种现实，一种是物理现实，一种是虚拟现实。

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"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

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