Those six killer apps were the key to Western ascendancy.

这六个杀手级软件程序是西方取得优势的关键。

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The next decade may well answer that question. Then again, it may take another 500 years to be certain that there really is a viable alternative to western ascendancy.

未来十年很有可能给出这个问题的答案。但话又说回来，或许还要再过500年我们才能确定，在西方统治之外，真的存在另一种可行的选择。

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I think maybe it was only then that I really got the point about this decade, just as it was drawing to a close: that we are living through the end of 500 years of western ascendancy.

我想可能就是那个时候，就在这个十年接近尾声的时候，我才真正领悟：我们正在经历500年西方统治的最后阶段。

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