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忙碌了大半年,轮到你休假了。临出门前,老板拿出一个模样有点异样的移动电话,对你说,“带上它,公司有急事时,我好找你。”你心里窃喜,“我这次到荒无人烟的戈壁滩上探险旅游,这电话怎能找到我。”别高兴太早,只要你在地球上,就逃不掉这电话的羁绊,因为这是刚于98年11月开通的铱星卫星电话。 摩托罗拉的铱星电话工程始于1997年5月,用79颗低轨道卫星覆盖整个地球上空。这79颗卫星如同一张球形的大网,将地球紧紧地裹在网中央。目前,一台铱星手提电话卖3000美元左右,每分钟的通话费为2～5美元。就目前而言,除了跨国公司的高级商务人员,大多数人仍无法消费得起铱星电话,但真正到了人人都消费得起它的时候,未必你就乐于时时把它带在身边,到时,属于自己的时间越来越少,更多的时候你的生活进程将随卫星电话的呼叫而改变。高技术在带来方便的同时,也使人类渐渐失去自由。
Busy for more than six months, your turn is up. Pro before leaving, the boss took a look a bit strange mobile phone, to you, “to bring it, the company has an emergency, I am looking for you.” You heart chuckle, “I went to the deserted desert Gobi Adventure travel, how can the phone find me. ”Do not be happy too early, as long as you are on earth, can not escape the fetters of this phone, because this is just opened in November 98 Iridium satellite phone. Motorola’s Iridium phone project began in May 1997, with 79 low-orbiting satellites over Earth. The 79 satellites act like a spherical net, wrapping the earth tightly in the center of the net. At present, an Iridium mobile phone sells for about 3,000 U.S. dollars and the call fee per minute is 2 to 5 U.S. dollars. For the moment, most people, except for senior business people at multinational corporations, still can not afford Iridium phone calls, but when it is really affordable for everyone, you may not be ready to take it with you at all times. When your own time less and less, more often your life process will change with the satellite phone calls. With the convenience of high technology, human beings are gradually losing their freedom.