If you are reading the original English version, albeit with a quasi-transatlantic twang, then you probably think of English as being the lingua franca of global communications.如果您閱讀英文原版，儘管準跨弦聲，那麼你可能認為英語作為通用語的全球通信。 After all, in almost every sphere of human endeavor, the world over, it seems…畢竟，幾乎在每一個領域的人權奮鬥，世界各地，但似乎...

Your washing machine or air-conditioning unit could one day be networked in a giant global grid and used to help efforts such as the你的洗衣機或空調機組或許有一天能成為網絡中一個巨大的全球網格和用來幫助的努力，如 SETI@Home搜尋地外文明計劃@主頁 project,項目 Folding@Home的Folding @主頁 , the now ended Lifesaver project, or even ，現在已經結束救生員項目，或什至 LHC@Home複合體@主頁 . 。

Well…not quite, but a simple system for…嗯...不大，但一個簡單的系統...