[2011.05.26] 数据时代

引用 wwee13 2011-6-1 11:55

本帖最后由 wwee13 于 2011-6-1 11:58 编辑

附博尔赫斯《关于科学的精确性》

On Exactitude in Science . . .
In that empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the empire, the entirety of a province. In time, those unconscionable maps no longer satisfied, and the cartographers guilds struck a map of the empire whose size was that of the empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following generations, who were not so fond of the study of cartography as their forebears had been, saw that that vast map was useless, and not without some pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the inclemencies of sun and winters. In the deserts of the west, still today, there are tattered ruins of that map, inhabited by animals and beggars; in all the land there is no other relic of the disciplines of geography.

引用 aubreychen 2011-6-2 11:55

Manufacturers have embedded 30m sensors into their products, converting mute bits of metal into data-generating nodes in the internet of things.
制造商们在他们的产品中植入了3千万个传感器，将各种本来相互孤立的设备转化为物联网中的一个个数据节点。
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这句话应该说的是制造智能手机的过程。
mute bits of metal：这个应该说的是原来“无声息”的金属零件。
加上传感器变成手机以后就成为了 data-generating nodes in the internet of things.

引用 wwee13 2011-6-2 12:33

本帖最后由 wwee13 于 2011-6-2 12:41 编辑

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请联系全文来看，the internet of things是物联网，明显不可能是指智能手机，这一句在后面有对应部分，用宝马举例的那一段.
mute bits of metal 我觉得是一个比喻，指相互间原本没有联系的各种设备，暂时还想不出比较好的表达方式。

引用 aubreychen 2011-6-2 12:55

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我查了下 the internet of things的概念。从这个和上下文来看确实不单单指手机。意思应该更加宽泛。楼主原来的意思是对的。mute bits of metal应该是指原来不能相互联系的设备。
我原来想象成手机加上触屏之类的传感器所以。。。

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