Now, in any society changing this much, this fast, doubling its own population--doubling--in twenty-five years.

现在,在任何变化如此巨大的社会,如此迅速地,在二十五年内,人口增至两倍

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Tests show in the nineteenth century that people could type four or five times as fast as they could handwrite and there's no ambiguity because it's very clear what key was struck; whereas, handwritten--fast handwriting becomes impossible to read--or difficult.

通过测试显示，在19世纪,人们打字的速度是手写的4至5倍,而且也不存在字迹模糊的问题,因为键盘敲击出来的非常清晰;,而手写，尤其是快速手写根本无法阅读,或者说是很难阅读。

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