读麦讲演人与媒介（1979）013

　　What is called the generation gap represents a pision between people who grew up in the visual era of the First World with its industrial complex - a world of jobs, of points of view, of policies, and attitudes - and the children of those people, children who were brought up in the acoustic simultaneous- instantaneous world of television. This had happened in a smaller degree in the 1920s with radio. The radio generation was somewhat alienated, dislocated. It was called the ＂lost generation＂ by Gertrude Stein. However, the radio generation remained relatively intact compared to the TV generation. Perhaps we should look further into that - the generation gap between parents, who grew up in the old First World, and their children, who grew up in the Fourth World.
　　人们所谓的代沟说的是在第一世界的视觉时代长成的人们和他们的孩子们之间的分歧，具有工业综合体的第一世界是一个包含职业、观点、政策和态度的世界，而孩子们被养育在在听觉的同步-即时的电视世界里。这种情况在20年代以较小的程度发生过，因为无线电广播。无线电世代有点被疏远、被扰乱。格特鲁德·斯坦称之为＂迷惘的一代＂。然而，相比于电视世代，无线电世代仍然相对未受触动。也许我们应该更深入地研究这个问题——在旧的第一世界长成的父母与他们长在第四世界里的孩子们之间的代沟。
　　按： 电子媒介使书面-机械人受到触动的程度，与电子媒介总括的程度成正比。受触动的程度，互联网世代大于电视世代，电视世代大于无线电世代。
　　Gertrude Stein，1874年—1946年，美国文学家，被誉为后现代主义文学之母。她致力于语言文字的创新，因为受威廉·詹姆斯、柏格森及毕加索等绘画立体派的影响，她淡化甚至抛弃文字的字面意义，用文字筑成一个立体的建筑，直指人物灵魂的深处。她提出了＂迷惘的一代＂的说法，找到了美国文学第二次繁荣的散乱背后的联系。