像以前人们总爱看表一样，现代人动不动就要偷偷拿出手机，看看有没有新短信或是社交网的更新内容。

If has become the modern equivalent of glancing at your watch the furtive look at a phone screen to check for new messages or have a quick look at Facebook.

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就在几代人的时间内，我们已经创造并懂得了通过电子仪器和英特网传送大量的信息。

Within a few generations, we've also created and learned to transmit unimaginable amounts of information, through electronic devices and through the Internet.

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I think it's a remarkable dynamic that Mark started this company in 2004 and that first generation the first nine or ten years of the Internet did not have a Facebook-like company that was thinking through it in a simple way.

我认为马克在2004年开办的这个公司的影响巨大,因为互联网初期的那代人用了九、十年,都没能创办一家像脸谱网一样的公司,能用简单的思维考虑问题。

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