They hover, above the ground, in a kind of limbo, a spectral waiting area for other imagined futures.

它们在地面上迂回盘旋，保持一种悬而未决的状态，幽灵鬼魂似的在这里等待着其他想象中的未来。

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Imagined futures that are really thinly disguised commentaries on current affairs are not chiefly concerned with reliable prediction.

想像中的未来即使是很小程度的受当前事件的评论左右，那么它都与可靠的预言无缘。

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Today, our economies are entwined and so are our futures. Relations are far broader and deeper than even Dr. Kissinger and his colleagues could have imagined all those years ago.

今天，我们两国的经济以及我们的未来已密不可分，两国关系的广度与深度就连基辛格博士及其同事们在当年也难以想象。

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It seemed to comment on how the actual future can seem much bleaker than our imagined futures.

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Imagined futures that are really thinly disguised commentaries on current affairs are not chiefly concerned with reliable prediction.

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Because of this, the final section of You Are Not a Gadget, in which other futures are imagined, such as a 'micropayment' system for viewing web content which would help content producers small and large make money on something besides advertisements, where Lanier is least convincing, seemingly because the future which he has just outlined is indeed so very bleak.

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