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Does that really explain what we're seeing with the intellectual property battles nowadays?
這是否能解釋今天的知識產權斗爭呢？
Because those people who were hunter-gatherers in origin wanted to be free and roam and pick up information as they wanted,
因為信息捕獵者和采集者希望能自由自在的獲取他們想要的信息，
and those that were in the business of farming information wanted to build fences around it,
而那些從事信息生產的人希望用柵欄保護他們的產品
create ownership and wealth and structure and settlement. So there was always going to be a tension within that.
建立所有制，積累財富，形成體系，達成協議因此兩者的關系總是有點緊張。
And everything I saw in the cultivation said there were huge fights amongst the foodies between the cultivators and the hunter-gatherers.
在食物生產中生產者和捕獵者以及采集者之間一直都有諸多沖突。
And this is happening here. When I moved to preparation, this same thing was true, expect that there were two schools.
信息范疇也是如此。我發現信息和食物在處理環節上也有相似之處，而且都有兩種風格。
One group of people said you can distill your information, you can extract value, separate it and serve it up,
一些人認為可以提煉食物的精華將食物的價值從原料中提取和分離出來，然而呈現在餐桌上，
while another group turned around and said no, no you can ferment it. You bring it all together and mash it up and the value emerges that way.
但是另外一部分人不同意這種做法。他們認為要把原料混合在一起才能體現食物的價值。
The same is again true with information. But consumption was where it started getting really enjoyable.
信息也是如此。但攝入環節更加有趣。
Because what I began to see then was there were so many different ways people would consume this.
因為我發現人們攝取食物和信息的方法實在很多。
They'd buy it from the shop as raw ingredients. Do you cook it? Do you have it served to you? Do you go to a restaurant?
我們可以在商店里購買原材料。自己做飯；吃現成的；或者下館子。
The same is true every time as I started thinking about information.
信息也是這樣。
The analogies were getting crazy -- that information had sell-by dates,
這個類比真是貼切無比——信息也有保質期，
that people had misused information that wasn't dated properly and could really make an effect on the stock market, on corporate values, etc.
誤用過時新聞可能對股票市場和企業市值等造成影響。
And by this time I was hooked. And this is about 23 years into this process.
至此我已經徹底沉迷其中不可自拔了。這差不多是在我進行了二十三年的研究之后發生的事情。
