從過去到現在，世界發生了深刻的改變。其實，每一分鐘每一秒，這個世界都在發生變化。下面，小編為大家送上一篇有關的英語聽力原文，供大家參考。
And in 1990s California,the Internet boom sparks a second gold rush.
90年代的加州 網際網路的繁榮激起了新一輪的淘金熱
Gold Rush mentality still existed over hundred years later when Silicon Valley got started.
即使在淘金熱一百年之後 當矽谷崛起之時 這一心態仍然存在
And the secret of Silicon Valley was the people were willing to take huge risks.
矽谷成功的祕訣在於人們甘願承擔巨大的.風險
In ten years,30,000 new high tech companies launch.
十年間，30萬家高新技術公司如雨後春筍般湧現
Silicon Valley creates nearly a million new jobs in the 1990s.
矽谷在20世紀90年代創造了近百萬個新工作崗位
Venture capitalists inject over $121 billion dollars into high-tech companies in 1998.
1998年 風險投資者們向高科技公司注入了超過1210億美元的資金
But not every dotcom entrepreneur makes a fortune.
但並非每一家網路企業都能賺得盆滿缽滿
In the Silicon Valley culture,
在矽谷文化裡
it's perfectly fine if you have a brilliant idea and
如果你有個好主意 但試過之後失敗了
you try it and it doesn't work out,
這完全沒有關係
people accept that, "hey, you know they don't all work."
大家都能接受 "這些主意並不都可行嘛"
But if you did good job at it,
但如果你確實做得不錯
you will probably get another chance.
你沒準兒能有別的機會
In March, 2000, the dotcom bubble bursts.
2000年3月 網路泡沫破裂了
The world is transformed.
世界發生了鉅變
While people didn't make as much money as they thought they were going to make,
儘管人們賺的錢沒有達到他們的預期
everybody got on-line.
不過卻實現了人人聯網
And the country got wired and embraced this new technology much faster
整個國家都已被網路連通 從而非常迅速地用上這一新興技術
than it would have had there not been big boom.
若是沒有網路繁榮的話 這就很難做到
So just as the gold rush kind of invented California,
就像淘金潮造就了加利福利亞州
I think the Internet boom days didn't make as many fortunes
我認為網路的繁榮 雖然並沒有創造像當年那麼多的財富
but they did wire the whole country in a really transformative way.
但是它確實以一種全新的方式把整個國家連在了一起
But as the information superhighway comes of age,
但是在資訊高速公路逐漸成熟之際
America wakes up to a new and terrifying friend.
美國一覺醒來 發現又面臨著新的敵手
