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打印7 Even TV has lost its command of our foreground. In so many households the TV just stays on, like a noisy light bulb, while the life of the family passes back and forth in its shimmering glow.
就連我們生活中占據重要地位的電視機也失去了控制力。在許多家庭里，電視機就一直開著，如同一個發出噪聲的燈泡，人們在其微弱的閃光里日復一日地過著他們的家庭生活。
8 (3) A sense of well-being comes with this saturation of parallel pathways in the brain. We choose mania over boredom every time. "Humans have never, ever opted for slower," points out the historian Stephen Kern.
腦海中充斥的這種種并行不悖的情況帶來的是一種幸福感。每次我們都寧可大干一番而不愿厭倦懈怠。“人類從未，也永遠不會選擇放慢速度，”歷史學家斯蒂芬·克恩說。
9 We catch the fever -- and the fever feels good. We live in the buzz. "It has gotten to the point where my days, crammed with all sorts of activities, feel like an Olympic endurance event: the everydayathon," confesses Jay Walljasper in the Utne Reader.
我們染上了狂熱――感覺竟然還不錯。我們生活在忙亂中。“程度已經如此嚴重，我的生活排滿了各種各樣的活動，感覺就像是在進行奧運會耐力項目比賽：每日馬拉松賽，”杰伊·沃加斯潑在《讀者》上坦言。
10 All humanity has not succumbed equally, of course.(4) If you make haste, you probably make it in the technology-driven world. Sociologists have also found that increasing wealth and increasing education bring a sense of tension about time. We believe that we possess too little of it. No wonder Ivan Seidenberg, an American telecommunications executive, jokes about the mythical DayDoubler program his customers seem to want: "Using sophisticated time-mapping and compression techniques, DayDoubler gives you access to 48 hours each and every day. At the higher numbers DayDoubler becomes less stable, and you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the beginning of time to the present could crash down around you, sucking you into a suspended time zone."
當然，并非人人同染此病。如果你奔忙不停，很可能你是奔忙在由技術所驅動的社會中。社會學家也發現，富裕程度和教育程度的提高帶來時間的緊迫感。我們認為自己時間太少。難怪美國一位電信公司經理伊凡·塞登伯格拿子虛烏有、用戶們卻似乎頗為心儀的"一天變兩天"程序開玩笑：“‘一天變兩天’運用先進的時間安排、壓縮技術，使你天天擁有48小時。時間比較多了，該程序就不很穩定，你會面臨時間崩潰的危險，從有時間起到當前所有的一切都會傾倒在你身旁，把你吞入一個暫時不起作用的時區。”
11 Our culture views time as a thing to hoard and protect. Timesaving is the subject to scores of books with titles like Streamlining Your Life; Take Your Time; More Hours in My Day. Marketers anticipate our desire to save time, and respond with fast ovens, quick playback, quick freezing and fast credit.
我們的文化把時間看做可囤積、保護之物。省時是眾多書籍的主題，如《提高生活效率》、《悠著點》、《我的一天不止24小時》。商人預見到我們一心省時的欲望，于是推出快速烤爐、快速回放裝置、快速解凍以及快速貸款作為應對。
12 We have all these ways to "save time," but what does that concept really mean? Does timesaving mean getting more done? If so, does talking on a cellular phone at the beach save time or waste it? If you can choose between a 30-minute train ride, during which you can read, and a 20-minute drive, during which you cannot, does the drive save ten minutes? Does it make sense to say that driving saves ten minutes from your travel budget while removing ten minutes from your reading budget?
我們有那么多“節省時間”的方法，可省時這個概念真正意味著什么呢？省時是否意味著做得更多？如果是這樣，那么在海灘用手機通話是節省還是浪費時間？如果你有兩個選擇：乘坐30分鐘火車，其間你可以看書；開車20分鐘，其間你不能看書。那開車是否算是省下10分鐘？
13 These questions have no answer. They depend on a concept that is ill formed: the very idea of timesaving. Some of us say we want to save time when really we just want to do more -- and faster. It might be simplest to recognise that there is time and we make choices about how to spend it, how to spare it, how to use it and how to fill it.
這些問題并沒有答案。它們取決于一個很不明確的概念，即省時這一觀念本身。有些人說想節約時間，其實是想多做些事，而且要做得更快。也許，最簡單的是要認識到，時間就在這兒，我們可以選擇如何花時間，如何節約時間，如何利用時間，如何填補時間。
14 Time is not a thing we have lost. It is not a thing we ever had. It is what we live in.
時間不是我們遺失的東西。時間不是我們曾擁有的東西。我們生活在時間之中。
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