Over time you are expected to accumulate further knowledge and expertise by collaborating across disciplinary boundaries, becoming a technology visionary rather than a technology follower.

随着时间的推移，你能够积累更多的知识并且在合作中跨越学科界限，成为一个有远见卓识的技术开拓者而不是一个技术随行者。

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The technology industry likes to sneer at Microsoft as a follower.

信息产业似乎在嘲笑微软是个跟风者。

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Stuxnet's first lesson is that it is essential to be a leader rather than a follower in technology development.

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"In technology China has come from a position of follower, adopting foreign standards on which it has to pay royalties, " said Mark Natkin, director of Marbridge, a technology consulting firm in Beijing.

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