到目前为止，没有一种技术能将人们分散开来，比如电话、电视和互联网，这些都没有削弱人们握手的欲望，尽管技术专家的预测与此相反。

No decentralizing technology so far—not telephones, not television, and not the internet—has dented that human desire to shake hands, despite technologists' predictions to the contrary.

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然而，同其它技术比如互联网和移动电话网络的历史一样，公民在这个长期过程中将逐渐放弃忧虑而成为真正的消费者。

Yet if the history of other comparable technologies such as the internet or mobile phones shows, citizens in the long run will put their worries aside and become consumers.

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例如，许多呼叫中心使用互联网语音技术，与高质量的电话线相比，能以更低成本运营国际长途电话业务。

Many call centres, for instance, use voice-over-internet technology so that international calls can be handled more cheaply than with high-quality voice lines.

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