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Wired's ways to Save the Internet

Wired Magazine:101 Ways to Save the Internet

Where's a superhero when you need one? The Net, which once seemed so invincible, is under attack by the forces of evil. Viruses knock servers to their knees. Spammers hijack our inboxes. Hackers and identity thieves menace our collective security and personal privacy.

Desperate solutions range from abandoning email to requiring a license to log on. Halt, fools! The Internet's problems stem from the same virtues that make it great: open architecture, the free flow of information, peer-to-peer cooperation, and a bias for linking strangers, not disconnecting them. Take those away and the Net might cease to infuriate us - but it will also cease to amaze us.

看看这些方法去拯救网络如何?
?Appoint Larry Lessig to the Supreme Court
?Don't let the Pentagon hog the airwaves
?Release Episode III on the Net
?Create a P2P email program
?Big music, follow the money
?Replace servers with P2P
?Publish Creative Commons for Dummies
?Add a broadband department to Wal-Mart
?Write to President Schwarzenegger(President of 2012 in Washington:)
?Keep blogging, Howard Dean
?Madonna, the EFF needs you
如果你熟悉BLOG、P2P、数字版权、星球大战、施瓦辛格、沃尓玛、数字音乐、霍华德?迪恩的话,那么上面的建议会让你忍俊不禁,它事实上结合了时下美国的真实网络发展现实及IT产业逸闻来改造互联网,我们可以称之为"Wired式幽默".

但事实上,上面这些语言很难让普通大众理解,如果国内有报纸杂志或网站翻译成中文,相信很多人会不知所云;Jio Ito的类似感叹:We are not technological determinists!

...what we're trying to come up with is a method that allows everyone to participate in the process of developing technologies and norms. Social software and blogs are really an amazing example of a community where technologists and users are working closely together. Is there something we can learn from this process that we can apply more generally and expand?

换个角度,是不是CNBLOG上的文章让大家觉得太技术化,而BLOGCN上的个人BLOG圈子却完全感受不到技术痕迹,所以你认为BLOGCN上的blogger才是真正大众化的?技术本身的意义在于我们更容易抛弃技术层面,确切地说,是忘记技术本身.

Update:TOM科技的翻译多处让人忍俊不禁,我怀疑译者到底有没有读提示性文字,呵呵,比如把很多条都归入MS TO-DO LIST:)

(一个小建议:如果要读懂Wired的那篇文章,建议开始blog吧.美国海军已经开始力推blog作为前沿手段用于加速信息交换以发展国防技术呢:)

Posted by topku on January 3, 2004 02:02 AM | Permalink