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Ma Qianzhu was unsatisfied with Chinese progress. An engineer at a large state-owned enterprise, he belonged to a generation that grew up believing engineering is des- tiny, that China’s future would be built, bolt by bolt, by people like him. Then Ma discovered something extra- ordinary: a wormhole to the late Ming Dynasty. With more than 500 peers, he commandeered a ship and traveled back in time 400 years, to a preindustrial China wracked by foreign invasion and internal decay. Their mission: trigger an industrial revolution in the past that would, in the future, make modern China great (again). This, strictly speaking, did not happen. …
摘自《连线》(Wired)2026年3月刊,Afra Wang。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。