In 1889, the German Government decided to use the postal service as an information network to create Social Security.

889年，德国政府决定将邮政用作,建立的社会保障的信息网络。

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The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

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That's an example; you see how information technology created a Social Security system.

这个例子中你们可以看出信息技术,是如何创造出社会保障体系的。

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I'm not going to stress public finance so much in this course but it seems-- I'm going to give the example of nineteenth century information technology and the nineteenth century invention of social security.

在这课上我不想过多强调,财政的重要性-,我将给大家举个例子,关于19世纪的信息技术,和19世纪社会保障的创新。

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