Looking back at the dazzling advances of the past few years, the stream of new concepts and technologies such as network computers, Internet search engines, virtual-reality games, virtual-reality shopping and so on has opened up one hidden magic box after another inside tiny silicon chips. But Taiwan has only been able to tag along behind, open-mouthed.
綜觀矽谷近幾年推陳出新、令人眼花撩亂的觀念和技術，不管是網路電腦、網路資料搜尋引擎、虛擬實境遊戲購物等，將蘊藏在小小矽晶片裡的魔法盒一層層打開，而台灣只有驚嘆追隨的份。