不可否认,还是有一些变化的。在1981年摄于伦敦摩根担保(Morgan Guaranty)的一张照片上,有8位男士和1位女士——也就是我。我们都是白人,不是毕业于牛津就是毕业于剑桥。但几周前听我发表演讲的那群人里,女性占到半数,也有一些有色人种和非牛津剑桥毕业生。
The technology is madly different too. Behind me last week was a screen ready for the PowerPoint slides that I had failed to supply. Everyone in the audience had a phone or a BlackBerry about them somewhere, promising rival entertainment. Back in 1982, we sat in front of flip charts and distracted each other with scribbled notes on scraps of paper. I remember listening with amazement to a man telling us that the bank had just bought something extraordinary: a facsimile machine.
技术手段也今非昔比。几周前我发表演讲的地方,我身后就有一幅投影幕,可演示PPT,但我并没有准备。下面坐着的听讲者,每个人手边都有一部手机或黑莓(BlackBerry)可以玩,以免听讲的时候无聊。而在1982年的时候,演讲人为我们展示的是活动挂图,我们在台下避免无聊的方法是互相传小纸条。我还记得,有位演讲人告诉我们,银行刚刚购买了一样神奇的东西:传真机。大家听了都很惊讶。
Even the form of the talk I was giving – an informal chat over lunch – would have been unthinkable in the early 1980s. Back then, a lunch break was a lunch break: unless you were out getting drunk with clients, you downed tools for precisely one hour. Even what we were munching on has changed – in 1982, I didn’t know such exotic food as bagels and samosas even existed.
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