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True: for more than 80 pre-digital years, linear speech broadcasting brought the gift of serendipity, random enlivening of a car journey or dull manual task.

的确如此：在数字时代之前的80多年里，线性的语言广播带来了意外收获这份礼物，随机地为一次驾车旅行或枯燥的体力活增添了乐趣。

But for the most part, this isn’t what the business community does. I have yet to meet a chief executive who reads regularly. Many skip newspapers, and magazines are a stretch. They don’t have time, they say. It’s inefficient; they can get the information they need from those around them. At a pinch, they might pick up a business book before a long flight, in the hope that, like a cookbook, it will provide a foolproof recipe. Some are drawn to what I think of as “business car crash” books — the stories of Theranos, Purdue, or WeWork. But outside those narrow pools of interest, a vast ocean awaits, bountiful with simmering ideas, mental adventure and imaginative refreshment.

但在大多数情况下，商界人士并不这样做。我还从未见过一位经常阅读的首席执行官。许多人不看报纸，杂志对他们来说也很勉强。他们说自己没有时间。阅读效率太低；他们可以从身边的人那里获得所需的信息。实在不得已时，他们可能会在长途飞行前拿起一本商业书籍，希望它能像食谱一样提供万无一失的秘诀。有些人被我所说的“商业车祸”类书籍所吸引——比如Theranos、普渡或WeWork的故事。但在这些狭小的兴趣池之外，一片浩瀚的海洋正等待着你，那里满是酝酿中的思想、心灵的冒险和想象力的焕新。

Roman lamps and Roman chariots are very different from LED strips and sports cars, but Roman nails are still clearly nails.

罗马的灯和战车与LED灯带和跑车截然不同，但罗马的钉子显然仍是钉子。

It would be absurd to try to track the changing price of sports cars since 1695, but to ask the same question of nails makes perfect sense.

试图追踪自1695年以来跑车价格的变化是荒谬的，但对钉子提出同样的问题却完全合理。

Primary care providers have their hands full and may not be able to follow through with patients who have trouble driving because they can’t turn their heads or remember where they are going — or have gotten shorter and haven’t changed their seat settings sufficiently to reach car pedals easily.

初级保健医生忙得不可开交，可能无法对那些驾驶有困难的病人进行跟进——这些病人或是因为无法转头、记不住要去哪里，或是因为身高变矮却没有充分调整座椅，以致难以轻松踩到踏板。

As long as there are other cars on the roads, self-driving cars won’t solve the problems of crashes, said Dugan.

杜根说，只要路上还有其他汽车，自动驾驶汽车就解决不了车祸问题。