读麦•讲演•人与媒介（1979）•012

To the world of the simultaneous and the instantaneous there is no sequence. There is no logic. There is only the simultaneous-instantaneous burst breakthrough. I was once in a plane when it was struck by lightning. There was suddenly a bang and a flash and the stewardess casually said, “We have just been hit by lightning.” This had never happened before to me, but apparently was a common occurrence to her. To aperson who had not a clue as to what had happened it would be rather startling. But this very world of the instantaneous, the simultaneous, is the world in which we live.

对于同步即时的世界，不存在任何顺序，不存在任何逻辑。只有同步-即时的爆发突破。我曾经坐过一架被闪电击中的飞机，突然一声巨响，一道闪光，而空姐漫不经心地说：“我们刚刚被闪电击中了。”这事对我来说以前从来没有发生过，不过显然对她来说是一件很常见的事。对于一个完全不知道发生了什么事的人来说，那真是令人震惊。这个即时的、同步的世界正是我们生活在其中的世界。

按：在我们生活的这个同步即时的电子世界，不存在顺序，不存在逻辑，不存在因果。顺序、逻辑、因果都是书面-机械世界的要件。

在电子世界里，书面-机械人完全不知道发生了什么，更不知道新的知道模式是什么。