抵抗信息入侵数字时代没有瓦尔登湖概要.pptx

Daimler has given frazzled employees the opportunity to delete automatically all emails received while they are on holiday. The ca armaker’s move underlines what everyone already knows: personal technology can abrade the self. Finding several thousand unread me ssages makes one’s first day back at work peculiarly horrible. 戴姆勒(Daimler)公司已经准许其疲惫不堪的雇员自动删除度假期间收到的全部邮件。这家汽车生产商的做法凸显了一个众所周知的问题：个体 技术(personal technology)可能折磨自我。在重返工作的第一天发现数千封未读邮件实在让人不寒而栗。 This is not the fault of device makers, social networks or mobile data o perators. It is a consequence of our determination, fed by professional and personal paranoia, to use all their products and servi ces at once. The malady’s symptoms are a fractured attention span, insomnia triggered by exposure to blue light and an ever wider, shallower friendship group. 这并不能归咎于设备生产商、社交网络或移动数据运营商。我们是自食其果：出于职业的和个人的偏执，我们决定同时使用全部这些产品和服务。这种顽疾的症状表现为注意力碎片化，暴露于蓝光所导致的失眠，以及更广阔却也更 肤浅的朋友圈。 I spotted a typical sufferer last month on a train rolling through Concord, Massachusetts, home of Henry David Thoreau, a nature philosopher who believed that in 1840s America: “The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease.” True to that diagnosis, our contemporary victim was tetchily switching between mobile phones as bandwidth fluctuated. He was also juggling an iPad and a pager. He was organising a business trip to Indianapolis. He should have alighted at Concord and thrown his devices in Walden Pond, the lake where Thoreau swam after retreating from modern life. 上个月，我在火车上发现了一名典型“患者”。这列火车当时正穿越亨利 #8226;戴维#8226;梭罗(Henry David Thoreau)的家乡，马萨诸塞州的康科德(Concord, MA)。这位自然主义哲学家认为，在19世纪40年代的美国：“一些人持续不断的焦虑和压力几乎成为了一种不可治愈的疾病。”如同梭罗的诊断，这 位当代“患者”随着带宽波动而恼怒地在几个手机之间切换，他还摆弄着一部iPad和一个寻呼机。他在组织一次前往印第安纳波利斯的商务旅行。他真应该在康科德下车，然后把他的设备都扔到瓦尔登湖(Walden Pond)湖里去，也就是梭罗从现代生活退隐后游泳的湖泊。 Ea ch technological revolution triggers a reaction against it. Thoreau was in part rebelling against the railway that ran, and still runs, past Walden. This not only redi