经典名人英语演讲稿46：互联网时代（思科公司首席执行官约翰.钱伯斯2001年秋季计算机商业博览会演讲）
46. The Age of Internet
46. 互联网时代
Over 70% of the company’s representatives in this room will tell you perhaps the most critical factor that is limiting the growth of their ability to get quality-employees. And you might think it’s only high-tech phenomena. That is not true. The exact same thing is true of manufacturing operations world-wide.
70%以上在座的公司代表会告诉你：限制能力增长最重要的因素可能是在员质量。你也许会认为这仅仅是高科技产业的现象。其实不然，全世界制造业也是如此。
The lesson learned is very simple: either we got to learn how to train our employees and prepared our employees better, or the high technology, productivity and production will go to other economics around the world. It is a matter of survival. In short, we got to do a better job around the world preparing our students of where the jobs are.
道理很简单：我们或者学会怎样培训我们的员工使他们更好，或者让高科技、高生产率和产品流入世界其他国家。这是生死存亡的问题。一句话，我们必须在所需工作岗位之处更好地培养能胜任的员工。
And as you begin to look about the global economy. Companies are gonna move the employees because they have to either those states with the best education and the employees are or to those countries. And the US will not be competitive even though we might have the best productivity tools because over time all the other companies around the world who are growing are about to love them.
但是如果你开始关注全球经济，你就会发现公司会解雇自己的员工，因为他们相比于其他洲甚至其他国家的员工来说没有高学历。于是尽管美国有世界上最好的生产工具，美国也不能成为世界上最有竞争力的国家，因为世界上其他的公司也会在发展中拥有此技术。
A generation of people who really learn how to use this technology and countries will just like Industrial Revolutions in some ways would determine which countries had the high standard of living and best workforce that it is empowered and rewarded in achieving that which countries get left behind. In short, the Internet will change everything. We started off by saying the Industrial Revolution brought together the change and the people and the factories. Internet revolution brings us together people, information and virtual companies around the world. And our role is the company if we execute properly is to enable the Internet generation.
实际上，这一代人谁真正会用这种技术，那么他们的国家也许会和工业革命时期一样，决定哪个国家拥有更好的生活条件和最优的劳动力，决定国家的优胜劣负。总之，网络会改变一切。我们开始说工业革命让人民、工厂等发生改变，互联网革命也会把全世界的人们、信息以及虚拟公司集合在一起，而我们在公司里扮演的恰当的角色就是使互联网一代变得强大。