读麦·讲演·在光速下生活（1974）·031

Now role-playing is a very different thing from goal-seeking, and in the electric time, we are moving very much in that direction. The reason that most of you in this room find it difficult to imagine a goal in life is simply that you’re living in an electric world where everything happens at once. It’s hard to have a fixed point of view in a world where everything is happening simultaneously. It is hard to have an objective in a world that is changing faster than you can imagine the objective being fulfilled. Women’s Lib, therefore, has very deep roots in the new technology, and is not just a matter of votes for women. It means that the work being performed by men today can in many cases be done better by women.

现在，角色扮演是一种与目标追求非常不同的事情，在电子时代，我们在这个方向上活跃了很多。这个房间里你们中间大多数人觉得难以设想一个人生目标，原因很简单，因为你们生活在一个所有事情同时发生的电子世界里。在一个所有事情都同步发生的世界里，很难抱有一个固定的观点。在一个变化速度比你所能设想的目标实现要快的世界里，很难有一个目标。因此，妇女解放运动深深根植于新技术，而不仅仅是一个妇女选举权的问题。这意味着，今天由男性完成的工作在许多的情况下可以由女性更好地完成。

按：在一个所有事情同时发生的电子世界里，人很难抱有书面-机械式的固定观点；在一个变化比人所能设想的目标得到实现的速度要快的世界里，很难有一个书面机械式的目标；在一个变化比你所能设想的以一种身分去实现目标的速度要快的电子世界里，很难追求目标或追求身分。

在电子时代，人们越来越活跃地扮演角色，越来越看淡身分。