Today's Luxuries Are Tomorrow's Necessities今天的奢侈品是明天的必需品

Today's Luxuries Are Tomorrow's Necessities今天的奢侈品是明天的必需品
Today's Luxuries Are Tomorrow's Necessities
　　By "luxury", we mean "a pleasant and often expensive thing that is not necessary". From a historical point of view, things which Were a luxury when they first came into being all became necessities later. When the electric bulb was first invented in the U.S., it was such a luxury that only government bodies could afford to use it. Nowadays, however, it has reached every part of the world. It is the same case with telephone, TV, and a lot of others, which were all luxuries years ago.
　　Anything, no matter how luxurious it is, will become a necessity when it is widely used. This is true of many of the present luxuries, including mobile phones, cars, computers and many other things. It is known to all that the purpose of the development of science is to make things easy for the mankind, not for only a small number of people. Therefore, the first thing to do after a new invention occurs is to spread it so as to benefit as many people as possible. In the course of the spread, the luxury becomes decreasingly luxurious until in the end it becomes a necessity. This is an objective law, nothing can be an exception.
　　With the quick development of science and technology, the process for many things to become a necessity from a luxury will be greatly shortened. Anything that can be imagined will be invented and in no time becomes a necessity accessible to ordinary people.
今天的奢侈品是明天的必需品。
　　所谓“奢侈”，指的是“没有必要的愉快而昂贵的东西”。从历史的观点来看，起初是奢侈品的东西后来变成了必需品。当电灯泡最初在美国发明时，这是一种奢侈，只有政府机构才有能力使用它。然而现在，它已经到达了世界的每一个角落。电话、电视和许多其他的情况都是一样的，这些都是多年前的奢侈品。
　　任何东西，无论多么豪华，都将成为必要时，它被广泛使用。许多现在的奢侈品都是如此，包括手机、汽车、电脑和其他许多东西。众所周知，科学发展的目的是为了人类，而不是少数人。因此，在一项新发明发生之后，首先要做的就是推广它，使尽可能多的人受益。在传播过程中，越来越少地成为奢侈豪华直到最后它成为必要。这是客观规律，没有什么可以例外。
　　随着科学技术的飞速发展，许多东西从奢侈品变成必需品的过程将大大缩短。任何可以想象的东西都会被发明出来，而且在任何时候都不会成为普通人的必需品。