The other day I was on a train journey. I had my laptop, but no internet.

有一天，我坐火车在旅途中，我有一台便携式电脑，但无因特网接入。

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There's a lot on the internet about a state-wide ban in Florida, but a few days worth of digging by a historian at the Florida State Historical Society found no such legislation.

网上有很多关于佛罗里达州禁止使用金属饭盒的消息，但佛罗里达历史学会的一位历史学家花了几天时间搜寻信息也没找到相关立法。

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As I like to put it, the history of our future is filled with moon bases, jet packs, and 200-mph cars, but has no cell phones, no Internet, and no laptop computers.

正如我会想象我们的未来充满了月球基地，喷气式发动机以及时速200英里的汽车，但是没有手机，没有互联网，没有笔记本电脑。

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But what about people in rural or underdeveloped areas who may have no way to get on the Internet?

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So, I actually paused for a moment to take some photographs after this particular experience because after walking this woman who happened to be, I mean she was at least 70 plus years old I would say, no offense if she's watching this on the Internet now and I got that wrong, but at least 70 years old.

所以，通过这个特殊的经历后,我停下来一会儿，拍了一些照片，因为这种事发生在,这位老太太身上,我的意思是她至少有70多岁了，我想说，如果她在网上看看这个，就不会犯错了,但是我错了，她至少70多岁了。

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But doctors say: stay away. "We have no confirmation that anyone has actually done this, but there is certainly lots of chatter on the Internet, and so we know that people are asking these questions,"

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Nokia's boss, Stephen Elop, says the company will invest heavily in customers in Africa and Asia who have a mobile-phone signal but no internet experience.

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The point i am trying to make nothing is risk free 16 years ago there was no internet but one man changed that.

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Now, I had no choice but to let the Internet be my teacher.

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