It was to avoid collisions on the early railways that the Victorians replaced local mean times, one for each town, with a national standard for synchronising Britain’s clocks. Technology continues to multiply the ways in which we can be touched by distant developments. But the solutions are no longer so simple. In a report published yesterday, the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations argues that the challenges of the coming century will overwhelm the institutions we inherited from the last.
在维多利亚时代，为了避免刚刚诞生的火车在运行时发生撞车事故，英国政府才废除了每个城镇独立的地方平时(local mean times)，建立了全国统一的英国标准时间。随着科技的发展，远方的各种动向以越来越多的方式影响着我们。但如今的解决方案不再简单。在昨日发布的一份报告中，牛津马丁后代委员会(Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations)称，现有机构将无力应对人类在未来一个世纪里面临的巨大挑战。
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