在你看来似乎大多数美国人完全被戴在手腕上的小机器控制着，为了准时赴下一个约，他们会突然中断讨论。

It may seem to you that most Americans are completely controlled by the little machines they wear on their wrists, cutting their discussions off abruptly to make it to their next appointment on time.

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现在，Web 上充满了各种小程序，且当你查看一个 Web 页面时，这些小程序会自动下载，并在你自己的机器上运行。

Now the Web is full of tiny programs that automatically download when you look at a Web page, and run on your own machine.

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不需要在你的机器上安装本地SDK；要构建所有的这些本地化应用，你需要的只是一个代码编辑器和一个web浏览器。

No installing native SDKs on your machine; all you needed to build all these native apps was a a code editor and a web browser.

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You need to, if you want something to be printed out inside your code, you need to tell the machine to do that.

你需要，如果你想要,在代码中显示一些东西的话，你需要告诉机器这么做。

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Would you be happy or would you be unhappy, to discover that you actually have been living ? a life on the experience machine?

你会开心还是不开心，如果你发现实际上,你一直都是在体验机器里生活？

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Ask yourself, how would you feel if you discovered now that you have been living your life ? hooked up to an experience machine?

问问你自己，你会有何感受,如果你发现此时此刻,你的人生,一直都是在体验机器上度过？

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