Jonathan Harris: The Web's secret stories

翻译人员: Gary Wang 校对人员: Peilu Chen

So I really consider myself a storyteller.

我真的觉得自己很会讲故事，

But I don't really tell stories in the usual way,

但是我其实不是用一般的方式讲故事，

in the sense that I don't usually tell my own stories.

也就是说我基本上不讲自己的故事。

Instead, I'm really interested in building tools that allow

相反，我对搭建平台

large numbers of other people to tell their stories,

让世界各地的所有人能够讲他们自己的故事

people all around the world.

很感兴趣。

I do this because I think that people actually have a lot in common.

我这样做是因为我觉得人有很多共同点。

I think people are very similar,

我觉得人与人之间很相似，

but I also think that we have trouble seeing that.

但我也认为人们不太容易发现这些相似点。

You know, as I look around the world I see a lot of gaps,

当我纵观世界的时候，我能看到很多的差异，对吧，

and I think we all see a lot of gaps.

我们所有人都能看到很多的差异。

And we define ourselves by our gaps.

其实我们是通过人与人之间的差异来定义我们自己的，

There's language gaps,

对吧，我们有语言差异，

there's ethnicity and racial gaps, there's age gaps,

种族差异，年龄差异，

there's gender gaps, there's sexuality gaps,

性别差异，性向差异，

there's wealth and money gaps, there's education gaps,

财富和金钱差距，教育程度差距，

there's also religious gaps.

宗教差异。

You know, we have all these gaps and I think we like our gaps

对吧，我们有所有这些差距和不同，而我觉得人们喜欢这些差异，

because they make us feel like we identify with something,

因为他们让我们感觉与众不同，

some smaller community.

属于不同于大众的小众。

But I think that actually, despite our gaps,

但我也认为尽管我们有那么多的差异，

we really have a lot in common.

实际上我们真的也有很多共同点，

And I think one thing we have in common is a very deep need

其中的一个共同点就是我们内心深处

to express ourselves.

都急需表达自我。

I think this is a very old human desire. It's nothing new.

这是一个非常原始的人类欲求，并不是什么新的概念。

But the thing about self-expression

但问题是自古以来

is that there's traditionally been this imbalance

这个表达自我的欲望总得不到满足，

between the desire that we have to express ourselves

因为虽然我们渴望表达自我，

and the number of sympathetic friends

但是总是找不到那么多有同感的朋友

who are willing to stand around and listen.

愿意站在边上听。

(Laughter)

（大家笑）

This, also, is nothing new.

这也不是什么新发现。

Since the dawn of human history, we've tried to rectify this imbalance

从人类发展伊始，我们就一直试图战胜这种不平衡，

by making art, writing poems, singing songs,

通过制作艺术品，写诗歌，唱歌，

scripting editorials and sending them in to a newspaper,

写读后感寄给报社，

gossiping with friends. This is nothing new.

与朋友闲扯八卦。这也不是什么新鲜事。

What's new is that in the last several years

真正的新鲜事是：在过去几年中

a lot of these very traditional physical human activities,

很多这些传统的表达自我的人类活动，

these acts of self-expression, have been moving onto the Internet.

已经逐渐转移到互联网上。

And as that's happened, people have been leaving behind footprints,

而在这个过程中，人们会留下了痕迹，

footprints that tell stories of their moments of self-expression.

那些他们表达自我时讲的故事的痕迹。

And so what I do is, I write computer programs

所以我做的事情就是，编程序

that study very large sets of these footprints,

搜集和研究大量的这些痕迹，

and then try to draw conclusions about the people who left them --

然后尽量从中得出关于留下痕迹的那些人一些结论，™

what they feel, what they think,

比如他们有什么感觉，他们想些什么，

what's different in the world today than usual,

今天的世界和以往有哪些不同，

these sorts of questions.

诸如此类的问题。

One project that explores these ideas,

其中一个探索这些想法的项目

which was made about a year ago,

在大概一年前启动，

is a piece called We Feel Fine.

做一个名字叫作“我们感觉不错”的程序。

This is a piece that every two or three minutes

这个程序每两三分钟

scans the world's newly-posted blog entries

扫描一下全球新张贴的博客日志，

for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" or "I am feeling."

寻找“我觉得”或者“我正感觉”这两个词组。

And when it finds one of those phrases,

如果发现这些词组，

it grabs the sentence up to the period,

就提取这一整句话，

and then automatically tries to deduce the age, gender

然后自动试着推断写这句话的人的

and geographical location of the person that wrote that sentence.

年龄，性别和地理位置。

Then, knowing the geographical location and the time,

然后，通过获得的地理位置和时间，

we can also then figure out the weather

我们还可以找到

when that person wrote the sentence.

那个人写那句话当时的天气。

All of this information is saved in a database

所有这些信息都保存在一个数据库里，

that collects about 20,000 feelings a day.

每天大约能搜集2万条感觉的数据。

It's been running for about a year and a half.

这个项目已经运行了大概一年半，

It's reached about seven-and-a-half million human feelings now.

至今为止已经搜集了大约750万条人们的感觉。

And I'll show you a glimpse

现在我大概演示一下

of how this information is then visualized. So this is We Feel Fine.

我们把这些信息可视化之后的样子。请看，这就是“我们感觉不错”。

What you see here is a madly swarming mass of particles,

你们看到的是一大堆纷乱蠕动的粒子，

each of which represents a single human feeling

每个粒子代表一句

that was stated in the last few hours.

在刚过去的几小时之内发表的感觉。

The color of each particle corresponds to the type of feeling inside --

每个粒子的颜色对应于内心感受的类型：

so that happy, positive feelings are brightly colored.

快乐积极的感觉用鲜艳的色彩表示，

And sad, negative feelings are darkly colored.

而伤心消极的情绪用灰暗的颜色表示。

The diameter of each dot

每个粒子的直径

represents the length of the sentence inside,

代表那句话的长度，

so that the large dots contain large sentences,

因此大的粒子表示较长的句子，

and the small dots contain small sentences.

小的粒子代表短的句子。

Any dot can be clicked and expanded. And we see here,

任何粒子都可以点击显示更多信息。请看这句，

"I would just feel so much better

“如果我现在能蜷缩在他的怀里，

if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me

从他怀抱和温柔的嘴唇感觉他对我的爱恋，

in the embrace of his body and the tenderness of his lips."

我会感觉多好啊”。

So it gets pretty hot and steamy sometimes

可见，有时候这些人类情感世界中的东西

in the world of human emotions.

会非常撩人和煽情。

And all of these are stated by people:

而这一切都是人们自己说的。

"I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much,

“我知道客观上那并没有多大的意义，

but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond,

但像大池塘的一条小鱼一样地生活了那么多年之后，

it's nice to feel bigger again."

能再感觉变大了是多么美好。”

The dots exhibit human qualities. They kind of have their own physics,

这些粒子能展示人的特性。他们又像有自己的生命，

and they swarm wildly around, kind of exploring the world of life.

疯狂地四处游动，欲探索生命的世界。

And then they also exhibit curiosity.

他们也显示出好奇的模样。

You can see a few of them are swarming around the cursor right now.

你们可以看到现在有一些粒子在鼠标周围蠕动，

You can see some other ones

另外一些

are swarming around the bottom left corner of the screen

在左下角的

around six words. Those six words represent the six movements

6个词周围游动。这6个词代表了“我们感觉不错”项目的6个模式。

of We Feel Fine. We're currently seeing Madness.

我们现在看到的是“疯狂”。

There's also Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics and Mounds.

另外还有“悄悄话”，“剪辑”，“同党”，“度量”和“果冻”。

And I'll walk you through a few of those now.

现在我和你们一起看看其中几个。

Murmurs causes all of the feelings to fly to the ceiling.

“悄悄话”把所有情绪吹到屏幕顶上。

And then, one by one, in reverse chronological order,

然后，一个接一个的按从新到旧的顺序

they excuse themselves, entering the scrolling list of feelings.

自己运行，进到一个滚动的感觉清单里面，

"I feel a bit better now."

“我现在感觉好一点了。”

(Laughter)

（大家笑）

"I feel confused and unsure of what the hell I want to do."

“我感到困惑，不知道我到底想干什么。”

"I feel gypped out of something awesome here."

“我感觉虽然上当了，但是收获了一些很棒的东西。”

"I feel so free; I feel so good."

“我觉得很自由，感觉非常好。”

"I feel like I'm in this fog of depression that I can't get out of."

“我觉得像是在一团郁闷的迷雾中，不可自拔。”

And you can click any of these to go out and visit the blog

你也可以点击任何一个粒子

from which it was collected. And in that way,

去查看它们的博客来源，通过这样

you can connect with the authors of these statements

就可以与这些博客的作者联系，

if you feel some degree of empathy.

如果那些话让你觉得有同感的话。

The next movement is called Montage.

下面这个模式叫作“剪辑”。

Montage causes all of the feelings that contain photographs

“剪辑”把所有包含照片的感觉抽出来，

to become extracted and display themselves in a grid.

显示成一个点阵。

This grid is then said to represent the picture of the world's feelings

这个照片点阵就代表了

in the last few hours, if you will.

前几个小时的世界情绪，可以这么说。

Each of these can be clicked and we can blow it up.

每一张图片都可以点击放大。

We see, "I just feel like I'm not going to have fun

这里说，“我只是觉得如果不是我们两人一起经历的事，

if it's not the both of us." That was from someone in Michigan.

都不会让我开心。”这来自一个密歇根州的人。

We see, "I feel like I have been at a computer all day."

这里说，“我感觉24小时都对着电脑”。

(Laughter)

（大家笑）

These are automatically constructed using the found objects:

这些都是用通过“剪辑”的设置自动搜索的句子。

"I think I feel a little full."

“我觉得有点吃撑了。”

The next movement is called mobs.

接下来这个模式称为“同党”。

Mobs provides different statistical breakdowns

“同党”对全世界在过去几个小时的感觉

of the population of the world's feelings in the last few hours.

做统计分类。

We see that "better" is the most frequent feeling right now,

我们发现“好些了”是现在最常见的感觉，

followed by "good," "bad," "guilty," "right," "down," "sick" and so on.

其次是好，不好，愧疚，不错，沮丧，恶心等。

We can also get a gender breakdown.

我们还可以按性别分类。

And we see that women are slightly more prolific

我们发现在刚才几个小时中，

talking about their emotions in the last few hours than men.

女人谈自己的情绪比男人要多。

We can do an age breakdown, which gives us a histogram

我们也可以按年龄划分，

of the world's emotional distribution by age.

就能得到世界的情感按照年龄分布的柱状图。

We see people in their twenties are the most prolific,

可以看到20多岁的人是最活跃的，

followed by teenagers, and then people in their thirties,

然后是青少年，然后是30多岁的人，

and it dies out very quickly from there.

其他年龄段的就基本上不怎么讲了。

In weather, the feelings assume the physical characteristics

可以按天气来分类，我们把

of the weather that they represent,

感觉特征和天气特征的相似联系起来，

so that the ones collected on a sunny day

那么那些象征阳光灿烂天气的情绪

swirl around as if they're part of the sun.

不断旋转着，仿佛它们就是太阳的一部分。

The cloudy ones float along as if they're on a breeze.

象征多云的情绪飘浮着，仿佛乘风来去。

The rainy ones fall down as if they're in a rainstorm,

象征下雨情绪的粒子坠落下来，就像是在下暴雨。

and the snowy ones kind of flutter to the ground.

象征下雪的粒子就像雪花一样洒落地面。

Finally, location causes the feelings to move to their positions

最后，按位置分类可以把感觉的来源地

on a world map showing the geographical distribution of feelings.

显示在世界地图上，显示出那些感觉的地理分布。

Metrics provides more numerical views on the data.

“度量”对数据提供更多的数量分析。

We see that the world is feeling "used"

可以看到，现在世界上感觉“被利用了”的程度

at 3.3 times the normal level right now.

是平常的3.3倍。

(Laughter)

（大家笑）

They're feeling "warm" at 2.9 times the normal level, and so on.

他们正感到比平时温暖2.9倍，等等。

Other views are also available.

还有其他的数量分析。

Here are gender, age, weather, location.

刚才看的是性别，年龄，天气，位置。

The final movement is called Mounds.

最后一个模式被称作“山丘”。

It's a bit different from the others.

这个跟刚才的几个有点不同。

Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs

“山丘”把整个数据库形象地表示为大果冻似的的小山，

which kind of jiggle.

有点摇晃。

And if I hold down my cursor, they do a little dance.

如果按住鼠标，他们会抖动。

We see "better" is the most frequent feeling, followed by "bad."

我们看见“好些了”是最常见的感觉，其次是“不好”。

And then if I go over here, the list begins to scroll,

然后如果我移到这里，列表就开始滚动，

and there are actually thousands of feelings that have been collected.

这里实际上已经收集了成千上万的感觉。

You can see the little pink cursor moving along,

你可以看到这个粉红色的光标在移动，

representing our position.

代表我们的位置。

Here we see people that feel "slipping," "nauseous," "responsible."

这里我们看到人们感到“下滑”，“恶心”，“负责”。

There's also a search capability,

如果你想看看具体某些人的情况的话，

if you're interested in finding out about a certain population.

它还有搜索功能。

For instance, you could find women who feel "addicted"

比如说，你可能发现

in their 20s when it was cloudy in Bangladesh.

在孟加拉国多云的时候更多女人们希望她们能永远20岁

(Laughter)

（大家笑）

But I'll spare you that.

关于这个我就不多说了。

So here are some of my favorite montages that have been collected:

那么这里是我收集的最喜欢的一些“剪辑”：

"I feel so much of my dad alive in me that there isn't even room for me."

“我觉得爸爸给我的爱多到都没有我自己存在的地方了。”

"I feel very lonely."

“我感到很孤独。”

"I need to be in some backwoods redneck town

“我要到一些边远的乡村去，

so that I can feel beautiful."

那样我才觉得自己漂亮。”

"I feel invisible to you."

“我觉得你眼中没有我。”

"I wouldn't hide it if society didn't make me feel like I needed to."

“我不会隐瞒，除非这个社会非逼我这么做。”

"I feel in love with Carolyn." "I feel so naughty."

“我觉得爱上了卡罗琳。” “我觉得我很调皮。”

"I feel these weirdoes are actually an asset to college life."

“我觉得这些怪人根本是大学生活的财富所在。”

(Laughter)

（大家笑）

"I love how I feel today."

“我爱今天的感觉。”

So as you can see, We Feel Fine uses a technique

所以你们可以看到，“我们感觉不错”项目用了一个

that I call "passive observation."

叫“被动观察”的技术，

What I mean by that is that it passively observes people

意思是说它被动地观察人们的生活。

as they live their lives. It scans the world's blogs

它扫描全世界的博客，

and looks at what people are writing,

看人们写些什么，

and these people don't know they're being watched or interviewed.

而人们不知道有东西在观察他们。

And because of that,

所以

you end up getting very honest, candid, sincere responses

人们就非常诚实，坦率而真挚的回帖

that are often very moving.

常常相当感人。

And this is a technique that I usually prefer in my work

这是我在工作中通常喜欢用的一种技术，

because people don't know they're being interviewed.

因为人们不知道自己被观察。

They're just living life, and they end up just acting like that.

他们只是过自己的生活，就是平时最自然的状态。

Another technique is directly questioning people.

另一种方法是直接提问。

And this is a technique that I explored in a different project,

这是我在另一个项目“雅虎时间胶囊”

the Yahoo! Time Capsule,

摸索出来的技术，

which was designed to take a fingerprint of the world in 2006.

这个项目的目的是总结2006年的世界的个性特征。

It was divided into ten very simple themes --

它分成10个非常简单的主题——

love, anger, sadness and so on --

爱，生气，悲伤等——

each of which contained a single, very open-ended question

每个主题都是向全世界提的一个没有固定答案的问题：

put to the world: What do you love? What makes you angry?

你爱什么？你为什么而生气？

What makes you sad? What do you believe in? And so on.

什么会让你伤心？你相信什么？等等。

The time capsule was available for one month online,

这个时间胶囊放在网上一个月，

translated into 10 languages, and this is what it looked like.

翻译成10种语言，看进来是这个样子，

It's a spinning globe,

一个旋转的球，

the surface of which is entirely composed of the pictures

球表面完全由人们发送给时间胶囊的

and words and drawings of people

照片，文字和图画

that submitted to the time capsule.

组成。

The ten themes radiate out and orbit the time capsule.

这10个主题成辐射状围着时间胶囊旋转。

You can sift through this data and see what people have submitted.

你可以筛选这些数据看看人们都提交了些什么。

This is in response to, What's beautiful? "Miss World."

这个是对“什么东西美丽？”的回答：“世界小姐”。

There are two modes to the time capsule.

时间胶囊有两种模式。

There's One World, which presents the spinning globe,

一个模式叫“整个世界”，表示成这个旋转的球，

and Many Voices, which splits the data out into film strips

另一个模式叫“大众声音”，把数据分割显示成电影胶片一样，

and lets you sift through them one by one.

你可以一个一个地筛选。

So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event,

有一个非常令人叹为观止的活动最好地展示了这个项目，

which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico

在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基市外围的沙漠中的

at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights,

杰梅斯普布洛，连续3个晚上，

the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides

时间胶囊的内容被投射到

of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls,

红岩峡谷的古城墙上，

which stand about 200 feet tall. It was really incredible.

大概60米高。那真是难以言表的壮观。

And we also projected the contents of the time capsule

我们也把时间胶囊的内容转换成

as binary code using a 35-watt laser into outer space.

二进制代码，用35瓦的激光射入太空。

You can see the orange line leaving the desert floor

你可以看到这些橙色的光线

at about a 45 degree angle there. This was amazing

以大概45度角从沙漠地面发射出去。这真是漂亮，

because the first night I looked at all this information

因为第一个晚上，我看着这所有的信息，

and really started seeing the gaps that I talked about earlier --

才真正开始“看到“了前面说的差异——

the differences in age, gender and wealth and so on.

年龄，性别，财富等等的差异。

But, you know, as I looked at this more and more and more,

但是，你知道吗，当我对着这个东西看了又看，

and saw these images go across the rocks,

看着这些图片在岩石上滚动，

I realized I was seeing the same archetypal events

我意识到看到的是一遍又一遍的

depicted again and again and again.

同样的很典型的事情。

You know: weddings, births, funerals, the first car, the first kiss,

比如：婚礼，生小孩，送葬，第一辆汽车，初吻，

the first camel or horse -- depending on the culture.

第一头骆驼或者马——取决于各自的文化。

And it was really moving. And this picture here was taken

那真是感人。这张照片是

the final night from a distant cliff about two miles away,

从大约两英里远的一个悬崖上在最后一个晚上拍的，

where the contents of the capsule were being beamed into space.

用激光把胶囊的内容射向太空。

And there was something very moving

这把所有的人类情绪发射到夜空的感觉

about all of this human expression being shot off into the night sky.

真的是令人激动不已。

And it started to make me think a lot about the night sky,

它使我开始经常思考夜空，

and how humans have always used the night sky

思考人类一直以来怎样用夜空

to project their great stories.

来演绎他们让人惊叹的故事。

You know, as a child in Vermont, on a farm where I grew up,

我是在一个佛蒙特州的农场长大的，

I would often look up into the dark sky

小时候我常常仰望夜空，

and see the three star belt of Orion, the Hunter.

看着猎户座腰带的三颗星星。

And as an adult, I've been more aware

成年之后，我对那些希腊神话描述的

of the great Greek myths playing out in the sky overhead every night.

天空中每天晚上发生的故事有了更多了解。

You know, Orion facing the roaring bull.

你们知道吗，猎户座在咆哮的公牛座对面，

Perseus flying to the rescue of Andromeda.

珀耳修斯座飞去救援仙女座，

Zeus battling Chronos for control of Mount Olympus.

宙斯与柯罗诺斯争夺对奥林匹斯山的控制。

I mean, these are the great tales of the Greeks.

这些都是希腊人的美好的神话。

And it caused me to wonder about our world today.

它使我思考我们今天的世界，

And it caused me to wonder specifically,

特别是如果我们今天

if we could make new constellations today,

能做出新的星座，

what would those look like? What would those be?

会是什么样子？会是些什么东西？

If we could make new pictures in the sky, what would we draw?

如果我们可以在天空中画新的图片，我们会画什么？

What are the great stories of today?

现在有些什么好故事？

And those are the questions that inspired my new project,

这些问题启发了我的新项目，

which is debuting here today at TED.

今天在TED这里首次亮相，

Nobody's seen this yet, publicly.

至今为止还没有人在公共场合看见过。

It's called Universe: Revealing Our Modern Mythology.

这个项目名字叫作“宇宙”，目的是展示我们现时代的神话，

And it uses this metaphor of an interactive night sky.

它模拟了一个能互动的夜空。

So, it's my great pleasure now to show this to you.

非常高兴现在可以演示给大家看。

So, Universe will open here.

这是宇宙的初始画面，

And you'll see that it leads with a shifting star field,

你可以看到它有一个移动的星盘，

and there's an Aurora Borealis in the background,

以极光为背景，

kind of morphing with color. The color of the Aurora Borealis

颜色变幻。北极光的颜色

can be controlled using this single bar of color at the bottom,

可以由底部这个色彩控制条调整，

and we'll put it down here to red.

我们现在把它定为红色。

So you see this kind of -- these stars moving along.

然后你看到这些星星在移动。

Now, these aren't just little points of light, little pixels.

其实，这些星星不只是一些小亮点，小像素。

Each of those stars actually represents

每个星星实际上是

a specific event in the real world --

现实世界中的一个具体事件——

a quote that was stated by somebody, an image,

比如某人写的一段话，一个图像，

a news story, a person, a company. You know,

一个新闻故事，一个人，一个公司，对吧，

some kind of heroic personality.

有点个人英雄主义的感觉。

And you might notice that as the cursor begins

你可能注意到当鼠标

to touch some of these stars, that shapes begin to emerge.

触及到一些星星的时候，会隐隐约约显示出一些形状。

We see here there's a little man walking along, or maybe a woman.

我们这里看到一个男人在走路，也可能是女人。

And we see here a photograph with a head.

在这里看到，一张有一个脑袋的照片。

You can start to see words emerging here.

你开始看到文字在这里浮现。

And those are

所有这些都是星座，

the constellations of today.

都是现代的星座。

And I can turn them all on,

我可以把他们都显示出来，

and you can see them moving across the sky now.

你就看到它们在天空中移动了。

This is the universe of 2007, the last two months.

这是2007年最后两个月的“宇宙”。

The data from this is global news coverage

这里面的数据来自于全球新闻报道的

from thousands of news sources around the world.

世界各地数以千计的新闻来源，

It's using the API of a really great company that I work with

用和我一起合作的一家真的很不错的纽约公司的

in New York, actually, called Daylife.

应用程序接口，公司名字叫“天生”（Daylife）。

And it's kind of the zeitgeist view at this level

它有点像是在过去几个月中

of the world's current mythology over the last couple of months.

世界发生的现代神话的思潮展示。

So we can see where it's emerging here, like President Ford,

然后，我们可以看看这里在浮现什么，比如福特总统，

Iraq, Bush. And we can actually isolate just the words --

伊拉克，布什。我们也可以单独把文字提取出来——

I call them secrets -- and we can cause them to form

我称之为“秘密”——然后把它们

an alphabetical list. And we see Anna Nicole Smith

按字母顺序排列。我们看到安娜•妮可史密斯

playing a big role recently.

最近有不少内容。

President Ford -- this is Gerald Ford's funeral.

福特总统——这是吉拉德•福特的葬礼。

We can actually click anything in Universe

我们可以在“宇宙”中点击任何东西，

and have it become the center of the universe,

让它成为宇宙的中心，

and everything else will enter its orbit.

其他一切都将进入它的环绕轨道。

So, we'll click Ford, and now that becomes the center.

那么，我们点击福特，它就成为中心，

And the things that relate to Ford enter its orbit

所有涉及到福特的星星都进入到它的轨道

and swirl around it.

围绕它运转。

We can isolate just the photographs, and we now see those.

我们也可以只提取照片，就像现在看到的。

We can click on one of those

我们可以点击这些照片，

and have the photograph be the center of the universe.

让它成为宇宙的中心。

Now the things that relate to it are swirling around.

现在和它相关的事情环绕在它周围。

We can click on this and we see this iconic image

我们按一下这个，就看到这张贝蒂•福特亲吻她丈夫的棺材的

of Betty Ford kissing her husband's coffin.

震撼人心的照片。

In Universe, there's kind of no end. It just goes infinitely,

这个“宇宙”，是没有尽头的。它是无限的，

and you can just kind of click on stuff.

你基本上只要点击它就可以了。

This is a photographic representation, called Snapshots.

这是一个相片集合，叫作“快照”。

But we can actually be more specific in defining our universe.

但是，我们其实可以更具体地定义我们的宇宙。

So, if we want to,

比如，如果我们想

let's check out what Bill Clinton's universe looks like.

看看比尔•克林顿的宇宙是什么模样。

And let's see, in the past week, what he's been up to.

让我们看看在上个礼拜他干了些什么。

So now, we have a new universe, which is just constrained

那么，现在我们有了一个新的宇宙，

to all things Bill Clinton.

仅限于所有与比尔•克林顿有关的事情。

We can have his constellations emerge here.

我们可以把他的星座显示在这里，

We can pull out his secrets,

提取出他的秘密，

and we see that it has a lot to do with candidates,

可以发现大部分和总统候选人

Hillary, presidential, Barack Obama.

希拉里和奥巴马有关。

We can see the stories

我们可以看到目前克林顿正在参与的

that Bill Clinton is taking part in right now.

那些报道，

Any of those can be opened up.

所有这些都可以打开。

So we see Obama and the Clintons meet in Alabama.

这样，我们看到奥巴马和克林顿夫妇在阿拉巴马州会面。

You can see that this is an important story;

你知道这是一个重要的事件，

there are a lot of things in its orbit. If we open this up,

会有很多东西在其轨道上。如果我们打开这个，

we get different perspectives on this story.

我们就能看到这个故事的方方面面的信息。

You can click any of those to go out and read the article

你可以点击任何这些东西，链接到这些信息的源头

at the source. This one's from Al Jazeera.

去看原文。这个是从半岛电视台来的。

We can also see the superstars. These would be the people

我们还可以看到超级巨星，它们是比尔•克林顿的宇宙中

that are kind of the looming heroes and heroines

潜藏着的男女角色（注：就像希腊神话英雄）。

in the universe of Bill Clinton. So there's Bill Clinton, Hillary,

那里有克林顿，希拉里，

Iraq, George Bush, Barack Obama, Scooter Libby --

伊拉克，乔治•布什，奥巴马，“滑板车”•利比（美国前副总统办公室主任）

these are kind of the people of Bill Clinton.

——他们可以说成是比尔•克林顿的人际脉络。

We can also see a world map, so this shows us the geographic reach

我们也可以看到一张世界地图，显示克林顿在过去一周

of Bill Clinton in the last week or so.

去过一些什么地方。

We can see he's been focused in America

我们可以发现基本都集中在美国，

because he's been campaigning, probably,

可能是因为他一直在搞竞选活动，

but a little bit of action over here in the Middle East.

但是这里有一些在中东的活动。

And then we can also see a timeline.

我们还可以按照时间排列，

So we see that he was a bit quiet on Saturday,

就可以发现，他在上周六基本没有活动，

but he was back to work on Sunday morning,

但他在上周日上午就开始工作了，

and actually been tapering off since then this week.

然后这个礼拜的活动慢慢减少了。

And it's not limited to just people or dates,

这个宇宙实际上不局限于人物或者日期，

but we can actually put in concepts also.

我们还可以观察某个概念的宇宙。

So if I put in climate change for all of 2006,

比如，如果我输入2006年全年的“全球变暧”，

we'll see what that universe looks like.

我们将看到它的宇宙是什么样子。

Here we have our star field. Here we have our shapes.

这里是星图，这里是形状，

Here we have our secrets.

这里是秘密。

So we see again, climate change is large:

可以发现，“全球变暧”的宇宙是很大的。

Nairobi, global conference, environmental.

内罗毕，世界会议，环境。

And there are also quotes that you can see,

如果你对阅读有关气候变化的文章

if you're interested in reading about quotes on climate change.

有兴趣，这里你还可以看到文章摘录。

You know, this is really an infinite thing.

这确实是一个没有止境的东西，对吧。

The superstars of climate change in 2006:

2006年气候变化的超级巨星有：

United States, Britain, China. You know,

美国，英国，中国。很明显，

these are the towering countries that kind of define this concept.

这些都是界定这个概念的最重要的国家。

So this is a piece that demands exploration.

所以说，这个项目很有继续探索的潜力。

This will be online in several days, probably next Tuesday.

这个项目将在几天之后在网上公开，有可能是下周二。

And you'll all be able to use it and kind of explore

你们都可以用它来探索一下

what your own personal mythology might be.

你个人的神话世界是什么样子。

You'll notice that in Daylife -- rather, in Universe --

你会发现在“天生”（Daylife）系统，或者更准确地说，在“宇宙”，

it supports both the notion of a global mythology,

它不仅支持一个全球神话的概念，

which is represented by something as broad as, say, 2007,

比如泛泛的说2007年的宇宙，

and also a personal mythology.

也支持个人神话的概念。

As you search for the things that are important to you in your world,

当你查找你的小宇宙中重要的东西的时候，

and then see what the constellations of those might look like.

你也可以看到它们的星座是什么样的。

So it's been a pleasure. Thank you very much.

很高兴和大家分享。非常感谢。再次谢谢。

(Applause)

（大家鼓掌）