★☆ lost time of Jun / 被遺忘的時光

似乎是今年的第一篇原创:

年轻人都不相信什么命运,也听不进长辈的话,回忆高中,如果我下面的话让老同学们大跌眼镜的话,我负责赔偿新的眼镜吧,青云路那里有我suppliers:) . 最近突然发现政治哲学的殷老头是个很有味道的老头儿啊,他说过,人之所以称为人,因为就是表示处于路口的时候这种状态的时候,at this moment, right here, right now,that's human being.当然,英文是我臭P上来的... 本来就是就中文字的形展开的. 到底是搞哲学的单身又有点优雅的老男宁(梅老板那种腔调,我发誓大家看到他会相信我的话,for God sake),不免有时来点昆曲或者名旦身段. 那时候我们男孩子们当然不泻甚至鄙夷,不过好在他把我对中文政治课的信心以一种魔鬼和奇怪的方式挖掘了出来.现在回忆那时候每次考试他把我的分数可以用各种苛刻的理由鸡蛋挑骨头般的压缩到10分以内,永远平静的位于年级bottom 5, 我却不慌不忙的每次考试背诵一页教材的方式一直到会考前那一礼拜,我甚至可以抽出随便一句就可以流利背诵出整页的状态,然后用一个近乎满分的A GRADE让他眼镜掉了一地,(我大概应该做眼镜生意去,眼镜杀手啊...).那一刻的明白原来我一直真的是被他人为的压住分数,被同学老师嘲笑中灰头土脸的日子是多么的纠结.

 

殷老师,(这辈子大概是第一次叫他老师) , 无论如何,你让我知道了,男人就是被冤枉和委屈还有压力中长大的,人只有对自己有自信,充满faith,(那时候我还没信仰)才能真的发挥出自己的能力甚至力挽狂澜,你必须过去解决问题,因为you're choosen,you're born to do that.  所以我感谢他,除了朱婉峨对关于presentation的复旦派的熏陶外,就算他这套人生哲学的冲击最对我有用了,虽然是30岁的时候醍醐灌顶,顿悟!! 接下来还是要如同那些在岛上的人一样每108分钟输入数字按下enter以此来拯救世界,也拯救他们自己 (详参 LOST剧情), I do my best,enjoy the rest.

 

我要我自己的人生,我只有先成为我自己,才能去成为其他什么. 焦虑总会有,那如同Dr.Jack said, And the terror was so..crazy, so real..and i knew i had to deal with it.
So i just made a choice. I'd let the fear in. Let it take over. Let it do it's thing. But only for five seconds.
That's all i was gonna give it. So i started to count.1.2.3.4.5.. And it was gone. 

Whatever their response, most tech luminaries agree that Bill Gates' legacy will remain.

q&a
Gates big send-off Co-founder shares surprises, letdowns, and morsels from early Microsoft days.

Now tech company CEOs, founders, and presidents are bidding farewell to Gates and the legacy he created at Microsoft. They'll do it with a crack at his dancing skills or a quip about him stealing their dates, but many will still give him credit for three decades spent changing business in the technology world.

Others have high hopes that he will continue to change the world through his foundation, while some are just breathing a sigh of relief that his bullying days are over. Here's what they had to say about Gates' career and future: Scott McNealy

"I wish him good luck. I think he is a very smart guy. It will be nice not to have him beating up on me, but I'm glad he is doing something good. I think he has a big job ahead of him. I prefer to see him spend the foundation's money than leave it to the next guy. I've got to believe that founding entrepreneurs must roll in their graves when they see how people spend their money unsupervised after they're gone."

When asked if he will miss Bill Gates, he said:

"I don't get paid to have feelings. But I wonder if he'll miss me."

--Scott McNealy
chairman of Sun Microsystems

Steve Jobs "Bill's retiring from Microsoft is a big deal," Jobs told The New York Times in January. "It's a significant event, and I think he should be honored for the contributions he's made."

--Steve Jobs
CEO of Apple Michael Dell

"Bill's vision and commitment to open innovation have been pivotal in driving standards-based computing and a new wave of productivity. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone else who's had a greater impact on driving computing into every element of people's lives.

"I've always had great respect for Bill's passion for the potential of technology and really think he personifies entrepreneurship, not only as a proven technology visionary but also a business strategist. Bill's shown a great deal of courage over the years, pushing the envelope in everything from IT innovation to public-policy discussions.

"Bill is one of a handful of IT industry leaders whose work has literally changed the world by making technology more ubiquitous and accessible for people everywhere. Many of today's game-changing technologies are possible, in part because of the framework built by Bill and his teams at Microsoft.

"That said, I think Bill's most lasting contribution may well be the Gates Foundation. Bill and Melinda are an inspiration, investing their energies and bringing billions of dollars to some of the world's most pressing problems.

"I don't think we'll see him letting up. If anything, the drive that's characterized Bill during his years at Microsoft will likely intensify, as he turns his full focus to the foundation. We should all stay tuned for what's next."

--Michael Dell
founder and CEO of Dell

Mark Cuban

"Bill is unquestionably a legend who's has had a far greater impact than most people understand. While the business stories about Bill are many, my favorite Bill Gates story is one he didn't even know I was party to.

"Back in the 1980s, Comdex was not just an industry confab, it was the ultimate party. I was dancing at one of the many events with a couple of girls who were clearly out of my league. All of a sudden, one of their friends comes over to us and tells me they are leaving to go to party with some guy named Bill Gates because he was worth, like, $60 million.

"True story."

Thanks for the motivation, Bill G.

--Mark Cuban
owner of HDNet and the Dallas Mavericks,
former CEO of Broadcast.com

Mitchell Kertzman

"I guess my view would be that I can imagine a time in the mid-to-distant future when nobody remembers Microsoft or Bill's role in Microsoft, but everyone will know of the Gates Foundation and its contributions to the world.

"If Bill can bring to the Gates Foundation the same drive, determination, and relentlessness that he brought to Microsoft, then he'll be one of history's great and lasting heroes. This is a new arena, when we will ALL be rooting for Bill to vanquish his 'competitors'--disease, ignorance, and poverty."

--Mitchell Kertzman
venture capitalist of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners;
former CEO of Sybase, Powersoft, and Liberate Technologies

Phillipe Kahn "The industry is transitioning from the PC to the world of the iPhone (and) Google, yet Bill's legacy will endure."

--Philippe Kahn
CEO of FullPower Technologies; founder of Borland Software

Bill Veghte

"There's a bunch of things that I have learned. Having the scale of ambition is at the core of it. (Bill would say) 'When you think about it, don't think about it in millions; think about it in hundreds of millions.'

"The second thing, I would say, (that) has been so important and inspiring: there are people (who), as they go through life, they get money or they get power or whatever--whether it be in politics or sports. The true test of the person is, when you get that power, and you get that money, does it corrupt the soul?

"We were in a meeting the other day on our approach to search. It was just Bill, myself, and one other person working through some things. Toe for toe, (Gates) is a guy (who) is at least as passionate as us. He's seen everything. He doesn't have to sit in this meeting. He's as passionate, as aggressive, and as excited as anyone else.

"The thing that is so inspirational for me about Bill is that with all that he's done, his hunger, his aspiration, his optimism hasn't dissipated. How he's chosen to apply that power, that money, that capability is inspiring."

--Bill Veghte
SVP of Microsoft's Online Services & Windows Business Group

George Colony "'Constructive monopolism' is Bill Gates' single most important legacy," George Colony wrote in his blog.

"He has not been an innovator in technology--in polite circles, we would call him derivative; in less genteel terms, we would call him a plagiarist. Gates has been a business innovator, not a technology innovator. "

As I look back, I think that Gates' 'constructive monopolism' most closely parallels Thomas Edison's. They both created pretty good technologies and then worked, using many means, to get them accepted by more users than their competitors. (Nikola) Tesla and (Steve) Jobs are two sides of the same coin."

--George Colony
CEO of Forrester Research

Rob Metcalfe

"Bill Gates is a great guy. Really smart, and he's not evil--even though I've criticized him harshly. I wrote the first column criticizing Microsoft for anticompetitive behavior. It appeared in Computer World, (marking) the beginning of my journalistic career on February 25, 1991.

"In my column, Viewpoint, the headline was, 'Is Microsoft abusing its power?' I had problems relating to Bill Gates after that because I was highly critical of anticompetitive behavior, which I had detected in 1991. The occasion was Go Corp.--the false announcement of Pen Windows in order to pre-emptively destroy Go.

"Anyway, he's a god. If you have to have a richest guy in the world, Bill Gates is an awfully good choice." (Click here for MP3)

--Robert Metcalfe
co-inventor Ethernet, founder of 3Com and Metcalfe's Law;
general partner of Polaris Venture Partners

Dan Bricklin

"He was pretty game for a lot of things in the industry. He'd come, and he'd dance at industry events, and that's pretty tough when everybody is watching you, and you're not necessarily the best athlete. But he did that stuff; he did what was necessary for the company and things like that. I always respected him for being willing to be a statesman of our industry to the rest of the world.

"I remember going to a conference that Microsoft had--I think it was for Pen Computing, and they had all us techies there. The party was over at Bill's house, and we had run of the house...I wouldn't do that!

"What he's willing to do for his business, that's pretty hard-core. And that image of working real hard, getting what he did and giving it back the way he's giving back, which isn't the easy way to give back--it's a great image for others. I'm really pleased that he did it, and I hope he's happy." (Click here for MP3)

--Dan Bricklin
co-creator of VisiCalc spreadsheet program; founder and president of Software Garden and Trellix.

Steve Ballmer

"He's not just Bill Gates, he's the Bill Gates," Steve Ballmer told Newsweek magazine. "He founded the company, he's accumulated this wealth, he's got this foundation, he's got this fame. That's irreplaceable.

"Also, Bill grew up with every one of the technologies in this company. He's got more capacity to remember things than anybody I've ever known. It's unlikely we'll have anybody again who has that breadth."

--Steve Ballmer
CEO of Microsoft

Craig Mundie

"I came here to do all the things non-PC. I remember talking with Bill. Bill said, 'Well, look, if we can just figure out how to write software for all these things, I'm sure there will be a way we can make money out of it.' He demonstrated in sort of a single interaction both this long-term view of things and the way he was willing to make big bets on intuition.

"I think that many of the things that the company has done have derived from a willingness to place big bets over the long term, and from my earliest days here, that was a hallmark of the way Bill thought about managing these new areas.

"I'm sort of a 'bet on people' person, and as an entrepreneur--someone who'd started and run a business--my belief is that all of the leverage is on people; you want to pick and back the right people.

"I met Nathan Myhrvold, and I met Bill Gates, and between them, I found that we shared a common enthusiasm for how technology would be able to help people in more ways.

"I was in the supercomputing business. So you could say to come from supercomputing to cars, televisions, and wristwatches was about as far a departure as you could make. But at the time, I personally believed that we always saw this trickle-down effect, where things that were at the limit of what computing could do quite quickly became commonplace, and courtesy of the Moore's Law phenomena and other things.

"It was really the camaraderie around that view that I felt in those early meetings with Bill and Nathan, and the belief that we had to go find the answers, that no one knew the answer. That was all I really needed to come here. So, we shook hands, and I came here as the general manager of a nonexistent division to do non-PC computing, and the rest is history, as they say.

--Craig Mundie
Microsoft's chief officer of research and strategy

Mitch Kapor

"I think I met him, actually, even before Lotus...they were doing some sort of deal with Microsoft, and Bill was driving very fast in a sports car and showed up late to a meeting, and he hadn't had a shower...it was really his intensity that was the most notable characteristic.

"I think he just brought this combination of technical and business rigor, and joined them together in understanding how the fundamental trends in the personal-computer field software and hardware were going, in ways that he could use to just build an enormous business.

"They were focused and strategic and persistent, and that was really Microsoft at its best. At the worst, I think the kind of competition routinely strayed outside of fair territory, and there was kind of a win-at-all-costs mentality that made life extraordinarily difficult." (Click here for MP3)

--Mitch Kapor
founder of Lotus; chairman of the Mozilla Foundation

Bill Campbell "Entrepreneurs are risk takers, and Bill Gates is no exception. For more than 30 years, he exemplified entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and philanthropy. He transformed the software industry and created a durable brand built on hard work and integrity, values that I personally admire. He will undoubtedly continue to amaze and inspire us with his charitable work."

--Bill Campbell
Intuit chairman

《大西洋月刊》刊文剖析互联网一代大脑退化历程，认为新阅读风格使人退回中世纪.

的确,不得不承认,在2倍甚至更高的相比于非googler阅读速度下,我的专注力和集中度被高度损害 ,更火上浇油的是,我还喜欢multi-task 执行任务和用multi-tab surfer
是恢复运用不超过5个tabs的时候了.

 

 

　　“戴夫，停下。停下好吗？停下，戴夫。你能停下吗，戴夫？”

　　这个著名的场景出现在库布里克的电影《2001：太空漫游》的片尾，乃超级电脑HAL恳求宇航员戴夫·鲍曼手下留情，放他一条生路。由于电脑故障，戴夫被送入茫茫外空，前路未卜，目的地不明，只好“视死如不归”。最后，他对HAL下了手，平静而冷酷地切断了它的内存(记忆体)电路。

　　“戴夫，我的思想要没了。”HAL绝望地说。“我感觉得到。我感觉得到。”

　　网络粉碎专注与沉思的能力

　　当尼古拉斯·卡尔想起HAL的哀号，不由得脸皮有些酥麻，手脚略感冰凉。“我也感觉得到。”他说。

　　卡尔在2008年7～8月号的《大西洋月刊》撰文，以《Google是否让我们越变越傻》为题，痛苦地剖析自己和互联网一代的大脑退化历程。“过去几年来，我老有一种不祥之感，觉得有什么人，或什么东西，一直在我脑袋里捣鼓个不停，重绘我的‘脑电图’，重写我的‘脑内存’。”他写道。“我的思想倒没跑掉——到目前为止我还能这么说，但它正在改变。”

　　他注意到，过去读一本书或一篇长文章时，总是不费什么劲儿，脑袋瓜子就专注地跟着其中的叙述或论点，转个没完。可如今这都不灵了。“现在，往往读过了两三页，我的注意力就漂走了。”

　　卡尔找到了原因。过去这十多年来，他在网上花了好多时间，在互联网的信息汪洋中冲浪、搜寻。对作家而言，网络就像个天上掉下来的聚宝盆，过去要在书堆里花上好几天做的研究，现在几分钟就齐活。Google几下，动两下鼠标，一切就都有了。“对我来说，”卡尔写道，“对别人也是如此，网络正在变成一种万有媒介，一种管道，经由它，信息流过我的眼、耳，进入我的思想。”

　　信息太丰富了，我们受用不尽，也不忘感恩戴德，却往往忽视了要付出的代价。“网络似乎粉碎了我专注与沉思的能力。现如今，我的脑袋就盼着以网络提供信息的方式来获取信息：飞快的微粒运动。”

　　网络新阅读方式：海量浏览

　　卡尔不是唯一一个遇到此种问题的人。长期在密歇根医学院任教的布鲁斯·弗里德曼，今年早些时候也在自己的blog上写到互联网如何改变了他的思维习惯。“现在我已几乎完全丧失了阅读稍长些文章的能力，不管是在网上，还是在纸上。”他在电话里告诉卡尔，他的思维呈现出一种“碎读”特性，源自上网快速浏览多方短文的习惯。“我再也读不了《战争与和平》了。”弗里德曼承认，“我失去了这个本事。即便是一篇blog，哪怕超过了三四段，也难以下咽。我瞅一眼就跑。”

　　伦敦大学学院以5年时间做了一个网络研读习惯的研究。学者们以两个学术网站为对象——它们均提供电子期刊、电子书及其他文字信息的在线阅读，分析它们的浏览记录，结果发现，读者总是忙于一篇又一篇地浏览，且极少回看已经访问过的文章。他们打开一篇文章或一本书，通常读上一两页，便“蹦”到另一个地方去了。报告说：“很明显，用户们不是在以传统方式进行在线阅读，相反，一种新‘阅读’方式的迹象已经出现：用户们在标题、内容页和摘要之间进行着一视同仁的‘海量浏览’，以求快速得到结果。这几乎可被视为：他们上网正是为了回避传统意义上的阅读。”

　　打字机让尼采的写作风格发生变化

　　互联网改变的不仅是我们的阅读方式，或许还有我们的思维方式，甚至我们的自我。塔夫茨大学的心理学家、《普鲁斯特与鱿鱼：阅读思维的科学与故事》一书作者玛雅妮·沃尔夫说：“我们并非只由阅读的内容定义，我们也被我们阅读的方式所定义。”她担心，将“效率”和“直接”置于一切之上的新阅读风格，或会减低我们进行深度阅读的能力。几百年前的印刷术，令阅读长且复杂的作品成为家常之事，如今的互联网技术莫非使它退回了又短又简单的中世纪？沃尔夫说，上网阅读时，我们充其量只是一台“信息解码器”，而我们专注地进行深度阅读时所形成的那种理解文本的能力、那种丰富的精神联想，在很大程度上都流失掉了。

　　沃尔夫认为，阅读并非人类与生俱来的技巧，不像说话那样融于我们的基因。我们得训练自己的大脑，让它学会如何将我们所看到的字符译解成自己可以理解的语言。

　　1882年，尼采买了台打字机。此时的他，视力下降得厉害，盯着纸看的时间长了，动不动头疼得要死，他担心会被迫停止写作。但打字机救了他。他终于熟能生巧，闭着眼睛也能打字——盲打。然而，新机器也使其作品的风格发生了微妙的变化。他的一个作曲家朋友为此写信给他，还说自己写曲子时，风格经常因纸和笔的特性不同而改变。

　　“您说得对，”尼采复信道，“我们的写作工具渗入了我们思想的形成。”德国媒体学者弗里德里希·基特勒则认为，改用打字机后，尼采的文风“从争辩变成了格言，从思索变成了一语双关，从繁琐论证变成了电报式的风格”。

　　卡尔引用神经学家的观点，证明成年人的大脑仍然颇具可塑性，而历史上机械钟表和地图的发明，同样说明了人类如何因此改变了对时间与空间的思维。互联网正是今日的钟表与地图。

　　网络影响让传统媒体也零碎化

　　当人们的思维方式适应了互联网媒体的大拼盘范式后，传统媒体也会做出改变。电视节目加入了滚动字幕和不断跳出的小广告，报刊则缩短其文章的长度，引入一小块一小块的摘要，在版面上堆砌各种易于浏览的零碎信息。今年3月，《纽约时报》便决定将其第2和第3版改为内容精粹。

　　Google首席执行官埃里克·施密特说，该公司致力于将“一切系统化”。Google还宣布，其使命是“将全世界的信息组织起来，使之随处可得，并且有用。”通过开发“完美的搜索引擎，”让它能够“准确领会你的意图，并精确地回馈给你所要的东西。”问题是，它会使我们越变越蠢吗？

　　“我感觉得到。”卡尔最后说，库布里克黑色预言的实质在于：当我们依赖电脑作为理解世界的媒介时，它就会成为我们自己的思想。

　　上网阅读时，我们充其量只是一台“信息解码器”。

　　当我们依赖电脑作为理解世界的媒介时，它就会成为我们自己的思想