If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, 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.

  • -- W.Daniel Hillis W.丹尼尔·希利斯

如果你听到一位专家在谈论互联网,并说它会做这个或会做那个,你应该用同样的怀疑态度对待它,就像你对待经济学家对经济的评论或天气预报员对天气的评论一样。

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The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

最需要中立的下一代创新者不在谈判桌上。他们在实验室或教室里努力学习,梦想着下一件大事,希望互联网像谷歌的创始人一样对他们开放。

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

我可能只是一个炸鱼薯条店的女店员,但是这些经济学家中的一些人需要跳出课本,到现实世界去找份工作。我甚至不会让他们中的一个来处理我的杂货采购。

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

互联网本应通过连接我们所有人而使每个人变得同质化。相反,它允许的是兴趣筒仓。

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

经济学家的猜测可能和其他人一样好。