从字母表，到钟表和印刷，每一项新的技术都深刻地改变了人类思考的方式。

From the alphabet to clocks and printing, every major new technology has profoundly altered the way in which humans think.

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只是在过去的30年间，计算器的引入才使手表才变得智能化；而也仅仅是最近的几年中，计时器和卫星技术才运用在了原子钟表里。

Only in the last 30 years have they gotten smarter with the introduction of things like calculators and, more recently, chronographs and satellites tied to the atomic clock.

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1967年，瑞士人已经获取了数字技术的专利权，但瑞士的钟表制造商却对此不屑一顾，依然钟情于沿用了几十年的传统制造方法。

In 1967, when the digital technology was patented by the Swiss, they rejected it in favor of the traditional techniques they had been using to make watches for decades.

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