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“Quentin Sommerville, BBC News. Qin Gang, do you have children? ” - 这是下午 BBC 记者的开场白，也是最广为传播的一句。场下一片哄笑。秦刚严肃地点了一下头。

以下是 Quentin 的完整问题(原文为英文)：我提问的原因是，几周前，当我的同事提出了一个关于“绿坝-花季护航”的问题时，你问他有没有孩子。而且你说“绿坝-花季护航”对于保护中国孩子来说是非常必要的。我的同事如果有孩子的话，他当然也明白这点。既然正府推迟了这个软件的安装，那么中国的孩子们——或许你的孩子——就不能得到那么好的保护了？

秦刚：该说的话我已经说了。有关部门呢，已就这个问题呢，发表了（这个）谈话，所以我没有更多的补充。(完)

A Google Doc circulating on the Web, for instance, lists several URLs pointing to Iranian Web sites listed by categories such as "Governmental and HARDLINE NEWS," "Police, Ministry of Interior," "Central Bank," "Commerce Banks" and "Office of Ahmadijenad and Khameneie." When a user clicks on any of the links, it initiates a continuous stream of page refresh requests to the targeted Web site that will eventually overcome the site if enough people click on the link.

William Gibson came up with the then-fictional notion of cyberspace in the 1980s when he saw a bunch of teenagers playing video games while listening to Sony Walkmen. In this interview, Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman of Singularity University (Ray Kurzweil is Chancellor), reveals that he got intimations of “the singularity” in 1993 when he noticed people connecting to others by using their cell phones while traveling underground on the D.C. subway.

PETER DIAMANDAS: [laughs] It’s something that needs to happen. I am absolutely convinced that humanity is going to undergo some fundamental evolution over the course of the next few decades. We’re going from evolution by natural selection to evolution by intelligent direction. And the vast amount of breakthroughs — some of the most amazing breakthroughs are going to occur at the boundary conditions between all these exponentially-growing fields.