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.
在維多利亞時代，爲了避免剛剛誕生的火車在運行時發生撞車事故，英國政府才廢除了每個城鎮獨立的地方平時(local mean times)，建立了全國統一的英國標準時間。隨著科技的發展，遠方的各種動向以越來越多的方式影響著我們。但如今的解決方案不再簡單。在昨日發佈的一份報告中，牛津馬丁後代委員會(Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations)稱，現有機構將無力應對人類在未來一個世紀裏面臨的巨大挑戰。
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