The trouble with the digital revolution, says MIT Media Lab director Neil Gershenfeld in his book When Things Start to Think, is that computers may have speeded up many of the processes of modem life, but they still remain relatively difficult to use.

• 麻省理工学院媒体实验室主任尼尔·格申菲尔德在他的著作《当事物开始思考》一书中写道，数字革命的困扰在于计算机可能加快了现代生活多方面的进程，但它们仍然相当难以使用。