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So we've built this system where we understand all the parts of it,
所以我們建造了這個系統，我們雖然了解這個系統的所有部分，
but we're using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it,
但是我們以一種不同于預期的非常不同的方式在使用它，
and it's gotten a very, very different scale than it was designed for.
而它的規模也與設計大相徑庭。
And in fact, nobody really exactly understands all the things it's being used for right now.
事實上，沒有人真正完全了解，所有這些如今使用的東西。
It's turning into one of these big emergent systems like the financial system,
它正在成為像財政系統這么大的一個應急系統，
where we've designed all the parts but nobody really exactly understands how it operates and all the little details of it and what kinds of emergent behaviors it can have.
在這個應急系統中我們已經設計好所有部分，但沒有人真正了解它的運作方式，它的所有細節，以及它能有怎樣的應急行為。
And so if you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it can do this, or it does do this, or it will do that,
所以，如果你聽到一個專家談論互聯網，提起它能做這個，它這樣做或者它將會做什么，
you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather, or something like that.
你應該持懷疑態度，就像你懷疑一個經濟學家對經濟的評論懷疑一個氣象員的天氣播報，等類似的行為一樣。
They have an informed opinion, but it's changing so quickly that even the experts don't know exactly what's going on.
雖然這些專家們見多識廣，但是互聯網發展得如此迅速，以至于專家們也不能確切地知道將會發生了什么事。
So if you see one of these maps of the Internet, it's just somebody's guess.
所以如果你看到一些互聯網宏圖，它們只是某人的猜測而已。
Nobody really knows what the Internet is right now because it's different than it was an hour ago.
沒人真正知道互聯網如今是什么，因為它每個小時都不一樣。
It's constantly changing. It's constantly reconfiguring.
它在不斷的在變化。不斷的在重新配置。
