空手一方客
收獲了一種恬靜的生活, 像一條波瀾不驚的小河, 流過春夏 流過秋冬
“你。是的，就是你。你控製了這信息的時代。歡迎你到你的世界來。“
大名鼎鼎的TIME雜誌，剛剛震地有聲地向全世界宣布，過去一年的風雲人物，就是“你”，就是控製了這個信息時代的你自己。人們正在為“自己”的信息虛擬世界喜慶雀躍，準備一展手腳，大顯宏圖。
然而，現實的自然社會就是會開玩笑。台灣海域的一場不大不小的地震，將亞洲國家間的通訊擊垮，將亞美間的通訊擊垮，將整個亞歐之間的通訊拖下了水（塞車）。“你”的世界，一瞬間變得暗淡，一下子回到了從前，回到了56K Modem的時代。
-----跨洲飛機起飛降落晚點；
-----跨洲網上航空訂票係統延遲；
-----跨洲銀行的轉賬延誤；
-----跨洲網上訂購係統/確認係統關閉；
-----跨洲假日的問候中斷；
-----跨洲公司間的網上會議全部取消；
-----跨洲網上炒股、炒匯全成了馬後炮；
-----我不能向我的亞洲夥伴發任何文字；
-----我也收不到我的亞洲夥伴的任何文字；
-----成千上萬的網民一下子集體下網，集體休息；
-----報社的中國新聞全版延後；
-----電台的中國新聞全時間延後；
-----電視的亞洲新聞全靠衛星來維持轉播；
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大地震給了TIME一個也響也亮的不大不小的耳光！
不僅洲際之間的網絡癱瘓了。連本洲內的國家都變成了局限於本國的內聯網。
-----人們一下子從虛幻而抽象的信息網絡世界中退回到了真實的靠物理連接的世界中。
-----人們一下子清醒地認識到了信息網絡的極度脆弱性和極度不可靠性。
-----通訊和網絡專家一下子意識到了“冗餘”的重要和開關-路徑多重性的重要；
-----大型通訊公司一下子意識到了多線投資的的重要；
-----每個國家一下子意識到了應急投資的的重要；
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時代雜誌，對它的封麵故事，通篇地作了喧染：2006年沒有英雄，2006年沒有權威，2006年隻有民眾，2006年隻有個人：“你”。一切權力歸於“你”。你可以”攻占”全球的媒體，你可以發展新型的數碼“媒體”，你可以發展新的數碼“民主”，透過網絡，穿越時空，你可以挑戰權威，你可以進行一場翻天覆地的大革命。中國的《南方都市報》也有樣學樣，發表了一篇幾乎完全類似論點和格調的社論“2006年，一個沒有英雄的年代”(http://www.xhby.net/xhby/content/2006-12/31/content_1505961.htm)。
-----在這個沒有英雄的年代裏，我們隻想做一個個體的人。然而，今天，在這沒有英雄的虛擬世界裏，在這全世界經濟越來越一體化的年代裏，你還能否做一個人？
過去我們習慣於權威，習慣於依賴他人，我們現在真的做好準備了嗎，我們真的有了這種能力讓自己成為了一個真正的自己---“你”了嗎？
在過去的一年裏，那些不斷傷害無辜的網絡暴力中是否有你？那些無中生有的流言蜚語裏是否有你？那些極端民族主義的喧囂中是否有你？那些要求處決精神病人的呼聲中是否有你？那些在論壇上從不講理開口就罵的聲音中是否有你？那些利用網絡漏洞盜竊他人賬號的人中是否有你？那些隨地吐痰的人中是否有你？那些為恐怖分子的行動而歡呼的聲音中是否有你？
過去的一年隻是這種充分個性化的時代的一個開始，未來會把它延續。作為一個普通的“你”，你仍然是曆史的一份子，不論你是時代的驕子，還是時代的矮子，不論你是成功者，還是失敗者，不論你是時代的先富起來者，還是時代變遷中的受害者，就像昨天一樣，你都逃脫不了今天，你也必須肩負未來。你，就是你自己，你必須麵對這一切，你要站起來，對未來充滿希望，正如你對過去充滿感激。
是的，網絡像是城市裏的一條單向路，我們已經回不到原來的從前。我們已經離不開這信息壓縮、信息傳輸的虛擬世界。我們已經一條腿跨上了這個隨時要漂泊的小船。我們的命運和著這虛擬的船舶蕩在一起，大勢所趨。我們把我們的生存死活交給了這個虛擬的世界，同舟共濟。我們不希望再看到光纖斷纜，我們也不希望再看到哪個數據交換中心蕩機。我們隻能認命，隻能希望這艘船堅固一些，穩妥一些。我們也要開始學會沒有你時的不方便，學會對你、對我、對外界更加友好一些，讓這個世界和平共處，走向未來。
是的，在這2007年的第一天，我選擇了“你”作為我虛擬網上世界的第一個論題。“你。是的，就是你。你控製了這信息的時代。歡迎你到你的世界來。”-----但是，我要說的是，"你”要居安思危。未來到底是什麽樣，對大多數的“你”到底是好是壞，我們都無從說起。有些東西，一旦失去了，可能再也不會擁有。麵對未來，“你”要學會思考，學會應變這個急速發展五彩繽紛的世界，“你，就是你。不要太一味張揚”，珍惜今天，希望明天，
------你的這個世界畢竟還不完整，畢竟還很虛弱，畢竟還由原來的那個現實世界所左右、所支配。你畢竟還需要善待你自己，還要善待你的左右，還要善待原來的物理世界！
Time's Person of the Year: You
（By LEV GROSSMAN）
The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.
To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s.
But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
And we are so ready for it. We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.
And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.
America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.
Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?
The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.
Sure, it's a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.
（From the Dec. 25, 2006 issue of TIME magazine ）
有大家之風。
“我們也要開始學會沒有你時的不方便，學會對你、對我、對外界更加友好一些，讓這個世界和平共處，走向未來。”喜歡這段話，很有理性。