The computer age triggered a seemingly endless stream of scientific data, but such incoming mountains of information come at a cost.

计算机时代催生了海量的科学数据，但如此让人仰止的信息大山也是要付出代价的。

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If we want to be healthy as we age, we have to be the leading scientific country in the world.

如果我们想要在年老时保持身体健康，我们的科技就必须领先全世界。

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Young children think like researchers but lose the feel for the scientific method as they age.

孩子们会像研究人员般思考，但是年龄的增长会让他们失去这能力。

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Poets called it the Golden Age. A golden age now describes a historical period of great artistic,scientific or economic progress.

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Contemporary archaeologists of the Bronze Age prefer scientific analysis of potsherds and bones to grand theories.

ECONOMIST: Ancient Greece

It is fortunate that Prince Charles, a leader in our world today - whether by inheritance, election or earned reputation, doesn't matter, a leader none the less - has had the foresight and courage to speak up about the dangers of our scientific age.

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That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.

ECONOMIST: Will reading and writing remain important?