If the web of knowledge were completely wired then I could tag on the appropriate historical citations at this point, and pull out the historical context for all these musings.

如果知识网络完全连通了，那我此时此刻就可以把恰当的历史引用文附在本书之后，而且能为所有这些沉思默想提取出历史背景。

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Shorn of context and often cryptically cut down, written citations like this risk giving both too much information and too little.

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