Now, because of cultural inertia, e-commerce is overturning traditional business models.

现在，由于文化惯性的原因，电子商务颠覆了传统的商业模式。

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This illustrates the principle of cultural inertia — the tendency of a meme at rest to remain at rest.

这说明了文化惰性原理——长眠的文化基因(meme)将保持长眠的趋势。

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The effect of cultural inertia over time is that we as a community are much better at adding to our body of knowledge than we are at updating it.

文化惰性随时间推移的结果在于，作为一个社区，与更新我们的知识体系相比，我们更擅长于向我们的知识体系添加新内容。

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Cultural inertia often stands in the way of those politicians who aspire to remake the world in their own ideological image.

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