Sometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.

有时，旧技术也能凭借其象征意义的力量得以流传几百年。

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For clues to the book's future, let's look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology.

为了给这种书的未来（发展）提供思路，让我们看一些技术变革的例子，看看旧技术发生了什么改变。

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"It seems crazy to me," says Gumbley, who is English, "that a cutting-edge-technology country is depending on a 40-year-old technology."

“在我看来这很疯狂，”身为英国人的甘布利说，“一个技术领先的国家依赖于一项40年前的技术。”

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They have sort of the old technology here but some of those old recordings might be very, very good.

虽然那时的录音技术比较落后,但是有些老唱片还是很经典的

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This invention of social security is well over one hundred years old, but I think that, because of the rapid advance of information technology, we're going to see a lot more progress.

社会保障的这种发明,已经经过了一百多年，但我觉得,由于信息技术的飞速发展，我们将会看到许多的进步。

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So this is an old technology just being applied, integrated with some new technologies.

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Without any additional bells or whistles, the iPad Mini would essentially be comprised of two-year-old technology.

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