In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the earth's postwar era, there was quite a wide-spread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over-trusting of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if they were hardly aware that wrong buttons may be pushed, or that a computer may simply malfunction.
现在看来像是计算机历史的史前时代，也就是地球的战后时代，人们普遍担心计算机有一天会从人类手中接管世界。不到四十年后的今天，随着计算机越来越多地减轻我们在商业和个人生活中的日常任务，我们面临着一个不那么引人注目但也不很难预见的问题。人们往往过度信任计算机，不愿意挑战它们的权威。事实上，他们的行为就好像他们几乎没有意识到可能按下了错误的按钮，或者计算机可能出现了失误。
Obviously, there would be no point in investing in a computer if you had to check all its answers, but people should also rely on their own internal computers and check the machine when they have the feeling that something has gone wrong.
显然，如果你必须检查电脑的所有答案，那么投资电脑是没有意义的，但人们也应该依靠自己的内部电脑，当他们觉得出了问题时，检查一下电脑。
Questioning and routine double-checks must continue to be as much a part of good business as they were in pre-computer days. Maybe each computer may provide, it should not be seen as a substitute for fundamental thinking and reasoning skills.
提问和例行的双重检查必须继续成为良好业务的一部分，就像在计算机时代一样。也许每台计算机都可以提供，但不应该被视为基础思考和推理技能的替代品。
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