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MIT Technology Review 125

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Happy Anniversary

For 125 years, Technology Review has aimed to explain the “always new and ever more complex problems” we face.

“To a community groaning under an ever increasing weight of periodical literature, a new magazine is forced to present itself in an attitude of apology… The Technology Review must make plain its purposes, its capacity, its determination to be useful, before it can expect to receive recognition from a public too busy to be indulgent. Realizing this, and mindful, too, of the spirit and traditions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Review neither throws itself upon the charity of its friends nor prays them to be blind to its shortcomings. Doubtless it will need indulgence, doubtless its attainment will fall much below its aspiration; but if it does not so far succeed in its attempt as to gain support through feelings other than those of simple friendliness, the existence of The Review cannot be too quickly ended.”

——Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1899

译文（自译）

（125）周年快乐

125年来， 《技术评论》 一直致力于解释我们所面临的这些“层出不穷且越发复杂”的问题。

“对于一个在周而复始的评论中呻吟的社会，一部崭新的杂志被迫地在歉意中诞生……《技术评论》 必须在它获得一个因过于忙碌以至于无法纵容它的社会之认可前，将它的目的、能力、大效于世的决心展现出来。意识到这点，并对麻省理工学院的精神和传统牢记于心，《评论》 既不会全权依赖于友人的施舍，也不会奢望他们对它的缺点视而不见。毋庸置疑，它会需要被纵容；毋庸置疑，它的成就会远远低于它的野心；但是，如果它还没有从高于简单的友谊中获得支持，它的存在还不能这么快地结束。”

——第1卷，第1号，1899年1月（本期为第127卷，第1号）

献给热爱技术的我们。Mens et Manus.