A few months before the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, Ronald Reagan made a bold prediction: the “Goliath of totalitarian control” would soon be brought down by the “David of the microchip”. “Information is the oxygen of the modern age,” the former US president told an audience in London. “It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across electrified, booby-trapped borders. Breezes of electronic beams blow through the Iron Curtain as if it was lace.”
1989年柏林墻倒塌前幾個(gè)月,羅納德?里根(Ronald Reagan)做出了一個(gè)大膽的預(yù)言:“極權(quán)主義控制的巨人”將很快被“微芯片的大衛(wèi)”推翻?!靶畔⑹乾F(xiàn)代時(shí)代的氧氣,”這位前美國總統(tǒng)在倫敦的一次演講中告訴觀眾?!八鼭B透過鐵絲網(wǎng)圍起來的墻壁,飄過通電的、布滿陷阱的邊境。電子光束的微風(fēng)穿過鐵幕(Iron Curtain),就像穿過蕾絲一樣。”