Looking Forward to the Twenty-First Century-展望21世纪
Looking Forward to the Twenty-First Century1. 新世纪科技发展的前景。
2. 新的科技给社会带来的好处和问题。
3. 你怎样对待新世纪的挑战。
Since World WarII, science and technology have developed a great deal. In the next century, this trend will undoubtedly cONtinue. All kinds of technology are to be improved at a terrible rate. This development will bring great benefits both to our everyday life and recur work. At the same time, it will also improve industrial and agricultural produc tion.
On the other hand, this development is sure to bring about some new probems we have never met before or, at least, to make some present problems even worse. If some new species of animals were really turned out by the gene engineering one day, what would our world be like then? And once the artificial intelligent robots were put into use, what would these clever "people" do to their producers?
In spite of all these problems we will not go back to lead the life our forefather led. The only way is to improve science and technology and to find out all ways to solve those problems. That is difficult. But we, the constructors of the new century, will surely turn them into reality.
展望21世纪
自从第二次世界大战以来，科学技术已经迅猛发展。在下一世纪，这种倾向无疑将会继续。各种技术将会以惊人的速度进步。这一发展对我们的日常生活和工作都将带来巨大的利益。同时，也将改善工农业生产。
另一方面，这一发展也一定会带来一些我们过去未曾遇到过的新问题，甚至使目前的一些问题变得更严重。如果有一天某些动物的新物种用基因工程产生出来，那么我们的世界将会是什么样子?一旦聪明的人造机器人付诸使用，这些机器人将对其制造者们如何呢?
尽管有这些问题，我们也决不会再去过我们的祖先所过的生活。惟一的方法就是改进科学技术，找到解决这些问题的方法。这当然是困难的。但是，我们——新世纪的建设者们，一定会把它们变成现实。