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收获了一种恬静的生活, 像一条波澜不惊的小河, 流过春夏 流过秋冬
“你。是的，就是你。你控制了这信息的时代。欢迎你到你的世界来。“
大名鼎鼎的TIME杂志，刚刚震地有声地向全世界宣布，过去一年的风云人物，就是“你”，就是控制了这个信息时代的你自己。人们正在为“自己”的信息虚拟世界喜庆雀跃，准备一展手脚，大显宏图。
然而，现实的自然社会就是会开玩笑。台湾海域的一场不大不小的地震，将亚洲国家间的通讯击垮，将亚美间的通讯击垮，将整个亚欧之间的通讯拖下了水（塞车）。“你”的世界，一瞬间变得暗淡，一下子回到了从前，回到了56K Modem的时代。
-----跨洲飞机起飞降落晚点；
-----跨洲网上航空订票系统延迟；
-----跨洲银行的转账延误；
-----跨洲网上订购系统/确认系统关闭；
-----跨洲假日的问候中断；
-----跨洲公司间的网上会议全部取消；
-----跨洲网上炒股、炒汇全成了马后炮；
-----我不能向我的亚洲伙伴发任何文字；
-----我也收不到我的亚洲伙伴的任何文字；
-----成千上万的网民一下子集体下网，集体休息；
-----报社的中国新闻全版延后；
-----电台的中国新闻全时间延后；
-----电视的亚洲新闻全靠卫星来维持转播；
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大地震给了TIME一个也响也亮的不大不小的耳光！
不仅洲际之间的网络瘫痪了。连本洲内的国家都变成了局限于本国的内联网。
-----人们一下子从虚幻而抽象的信息网络世界中退回到了真实的靠物理连接的世界中。
-----人们一下子清醒地认识到了信息网络的极度脆弱性和极度不可靠性。
-----通讯和网络专家一下子意识到了“冗余”的重要和开关-路径多重性的重要；
-----大型通讯公司一下子意识到了多线投资的的重要；
-----每个国家一下子意识到了应急投资的的重要；
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时代杂志，对它的封面故事，通篇地作了喧染：2006年没有英雄，2006年没有权威，2006年只有民众，2006年只有个人：“你”。一切权力归于“你”。你可以”攻占”全球的媒体，你可以发展新型的数码“媒体”，你可以发展新的数码“民主”，透过网络，穿越时空，你可以挑战权威，你可以进行一场翻天覆地的大革命。中国的《南方都市报》也有样学样，发表了一篇几乎完全类似论点和格调的社论“2006年，一个没有英雄的年代”(http://www.xhby.net/xhby/content/2006-12/31/content_1505961.htm)。
-----在这个没有英雄的年代里，我们只想做一个个体的人。然而，今天，在这没有英雄的虚拟世界里，在这全世界经济越来越一体化的年代里，你还能否做一个人？
过去我们习惯于权威，习惯于依赖他人，我们现在真的做好准备了吗，我们真的有了这种能力让自己成为了一个真正的自己---“你”了吗？
在过去的一年里，那些不断伤害无辜的网络暴力中是否有你？那些无中生有的流言蜚语里是否有你？那些极端民族主义的喧嚣中是否有你？那些要求处决精神病人的呼声中是否有你？那些在论坛上从不讲理开口就骂的声音中是否有你？那些利用网络漏洞盗窃他人账号的人中是否有你？那些随地吐痰的人中是否有你？那些为恐怖分子的行动而欢呼的声音中是否有你？
过去的一年只是这种充分个性化的时代的一个开始，未来会把它延续。作为一个普通的“你”，你仍然是历史的一份子，不论你是时代的骄子，还是时代的矮子，不论你是成功者，还是失败者，不论你是时代的先富起来者，还是时代变迁中的受害者，就像昨天一样，你都逃脱不了今天，你也必须肩负未来。你，就是你自己，你必须面对这一切，你要站起来，对未来充满希望，正如你对过去充满感激。
是的，网络像是城市里的一条单向路，我们已经回不到原来的从前。我们已经离不开这信息压缩、信息传输的虚拟世界。我们已经一条腿跨上了这个随时要漂泊的小船。我们的命运和着这虚拟的船舶荡在一起，大势所趋。我们把我们的生存死活交给了这个虚拟的世界，同舟共济。我们不希望再看到光纤断缆，我们也不希望再看到哪个数据交换中心荡机。我们只能认命，只能希望这艘船坚固一些，稳妥一些。我们也要开始学会没有你时的不方便，学会对你、对我、对外界更加友好一些，让这个世界和平共处，走向未来。
是的，在这2007年的第一天，我选择了“你”作为我虚拟网上世界的第一个论题。“你。是的，就是你。你控制了这信息的时代。欢迎你到你的世界来。”-----但是，我要说的是，"你”要居安思危。未来到底是什么样，对大多数的“你”到底是好是坏，我们都无从说起。有些东西，一旦失去了，可能再也不会拥有。面对未来，“你”要学会思考，学会应变这个急速发展五彩缤纷的世界，“你，就是你。不要太一味张扬”，珍惜今天，希望明天，
------你的这个世界毕竟还不完整，毕竟还很虚弱，毕竟还由原来的那个现实世界所左右、所支配。你毕竟还需要善待你自己，还要善待你的左右，还要善待原来的物理世界！
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 ）
有大家之风。
“我们也要开始学会没有你时的不方便，学会对你、对我、对外界更加友好一些，让这个世界和平共处，走向未来。”喜欢这段话，很有理性。