我们的时代还有许多故事，等待述说

现代化主要有两大特征：工业化和都市化。如果一百年的时间，人口慢慢向都市集中，一个现代化都市或许来得及建设。但在十几二十年内，人口两倍三倍暴增，都市的交通、医疗、教育、住宅乃至食物供应等，怎么可能负荷？上世纪80年代台北市的交通堵塞、医疗纠纷、房地产泡沫、社会冲突等，都源自于此。

然而，也正是透过写作的反省，我找到了救赎的力量。因为我们这一代人，是目睹且切肤地感受到从农业文明向工业文明的转型之痛。这一过程中，人性的变化如此细致，人心的疼痛如此幽微，价值的扭曲如此剧烈，人口的迁徙如此庞大，社会的结构如此巨变，都市的建设如此快速，旧的已经消逝，新的不断演化。

Modernization has two main characteristics: industrialization and urbanization. If in a hundred years,the population is slowly concentrated in the city,a modernization may be able to build. But in a dozen or twenty years,the population has doubled or tripled. How can urban traffic,medical care,education,housing and food supply be loaded? Traffic congestion,medical disputes,real estate bubbles,social conflicts and etc. in Taipei in the 1980s all originated from this.

However,it is through the reflection of writing that I have found the power of redemption,as our generation is witnessing the pain of the transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization. In this process,the changes in human nature are so detailed,the pain of the human heart is so quiet,the distortion of value is so fierce,the migration of the population is so large,the structure of society is so drastically changed and the construction of the city is so fast that the old has disappeared and the new has evolved continuously.