I agree with Gordon that I would rather give up my mobile phone and even the Internet than go without indoor plumbing and electricity. But that just means that we are lucky to be living now rather than a century ago (and even luckier to be living now than two centuries ago or in the middle ages).
我同意戈登，我宁可放弃手机甚至互联网，也不愿忍受没有自来水和电。但这无非意味着我们幸运地生活在现在，而不是一个世纪前（当然，比生活在两个世纪前或生活在中世纪就更加幸运了）。这些重大创新发生在过去这一事实并不构成对未来悲观的理由。