Imagine a cell phone, for example, that can reconfigure its transceiver to use any network in the world and that at the push of a button can reprogram its processor to translate speech from one language to another.

• 举例来说，想像这种行动电话吧，它能重新配置它的无线电收发器，来使用世界上各种网络，而且只要按一个钮，就能重新设定它的微处理器，把一种语言翻译成另外一种。