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年柏林墙倒塌前几个月，罗纳德•里根(Ronald Reagan)做出了一个大胆的预言：“极权主义控制的巨人”将很快被“微芯片的大卫”推翻。“信息是现代时代的氧气，”这位前美国总统在伦敦的一次演讲中告诉观众。“它渗透过铁丝网围起来的墙壁，飘过通电的、布满陷阱的边境。电子光束的微风穿过铁幕(Iron Curtain)，就像穿过蕾丝一样。”
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