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tee: Google in 1909
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." said Arthur C. Clarke. If it was not magic, back to 100 years ago, to search something and get the results within one second, Google must have been part of the service of the Library of Congress. Write down your queries, send it to a certain address and wait for the best matched result to arrive.
科幻大师亚瑟·克拉克说:“任何足够先进的技术均迹近魔法”。Google 就是如此,这个能在 0.x 秒钟给你结果的检索人类全部信息的简单的搜索框,如果在 100 年前出现,无疑相当于一个华丽的魔法。恩,让我们现实一点,如果在 100 年前诞生一家名为 Google 的公司,它也许该是美国国会图书馆的一项公益事业:任何人可以将自己想查询的书籍资料填在一张卡上,寄到指定地址,等待 30 天后将得到回复——这实在是一种慢到笨拙的魔法,但是不是已经可以让人感到「手气不错」?