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Speed isn’t everything 速度不是一切 What will this mean in practice? Moore’s law was never a physical law, but a self-fulfilling prophecy—a triumph of central planning by which the technology industry co-ordinated and synchronised its actions. Its demise will make the rate of technological progress less predictable; there are likely to be bumps in the road as new performance-enhancing technologies arrive in fits and starts. But given that most people judge their computing devices on the availability of capabilities and features, rather than processing speed, it may not feel like much of a slowdown to consumers. 1 prophecy [ ˈprɒfəsi ] 预言 2 self-fulfilling 自我实现的，实现自己抱负的； （预言等）本身自然会实现的 Fear of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. 害怕失败可能会真的导致失败。3 triumph [ ˈtraɪʌmf ] 胜利; 巨大的成就; （成功的）典范; （巨大成功或胜利的）心满意足 4 synchronise [ 'sɪŋkrənaɪz ] 同步 5 demise [ dɪˈmaɪz ] 终止;消亡;死亡 6 bump [ bʌmp ] 隆起，凸块 7 fits and starts 间歇的，一阵一阵的 * What will this mean in practice? xxx was never xxxx. but a xxxx破折号，名词 of 名词+ by which 从句 * given that。。。。rather than.... it may not For companies, the end of Moore’s law will be disguised by the shift to cloud computing. Already, firms are upgrading PCs less often, and have stopped operating their own e-mail servers. This model depends, however, on fast and reliable connectivity. That will strengthen demand for improvements to broadband infrastructure: those with poor connectivity will be less able to benefit as improvements in computing increasingly happen inside cloud providers’ data centres. 1 disguise [ dɪsˈgaɪz ]假扮;化妆;乔装 For the technology industry itself, the decline of Moore’s law strengthens the logic for centralised cloud computing, already dominated by a few big firms: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. They are working hard to improve the performance of their cloud infrastructure. And they are hunting for startups touting new tricks: Google bought Deepmind, the British firm that built AlphaGo, in 2014. tout 兜揽;招徕