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Jonathan Harris: The Web's secret stories
Jonathan Harris談網路上的祕密
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Jonathan Harris具有過人的同情心，希望能探索網路上的情感世界，他所主導的專案就是在網路上蒐集每個人的感覺與渴望。
Jonathan Harris - Artist, storyteller, Internet anthropologist
Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression -- and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet. Full bio
Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression -- and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet. Full bio
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So I really consider myself a storyteller.
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我覺得自己是一個說故事的人，
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But I don't really tell stories in the usual way,
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但我說故事的方式和一般人不同，
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in the sense that I don't usually tell my own stories.
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我也不常講自己的故事。
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Instead, I'm really interested in building tools that allow
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我比較常做的是設計一些工具，
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large numbers of other people to tell their stories,
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讓世界上的其他許多人
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people all around the world.
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都可以講述自己的故事。
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I do this because I think that people actually have a lot in common.
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我會這麼做是因為我覺得人們有許多共同點，
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I think people are very similar,
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我覺得大部分的人都很相像，
00:51
but I also think that we have trouble seeing that.
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只是大家都沒有發覺而已。
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You know, as I look around the world I see a lot of gaps,
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當我觀察了世界上的各種人後，發現了一些差異，
00:57
and I think we all see a lot of gaps.
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我相信大家都看得出來這些差異，
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And we define ourselves by our gaps.
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我們也用這些差異來區別彼此，
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There's language gaps,
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像是語言差異、
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there's ethnicity and racial gaps, there's age gaps,
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種族及人種差異、年齡差異、
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there's gender gaps, there's sexuality gaps,
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性別差異、性向差異、
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there's wealth and money gaps, there's education gaps,
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財富差異、教育程度差異，
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there's also religious gaps.
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當然還有宗教差異。
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You know, we have all these gaps and I think we like our gaps
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就算我們之間存在了這麼多的差異，我們還是喜歡這些差異，
01:22
because they make us feel like we identify with something,
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因為這些差異會讓我們產生認同感，
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some smaller community.
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形成各個小團體。
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But I think that actually, despite our gaps,
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但除了這些差異之外，
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we really have a lot in common.
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我真的覺得我們有許多共同點，
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And I think one thing we have in common is a very deep need
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其中一個共同點，就是我們對於表達自己的意見，
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to express ourselves.
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都有很深的渴望。
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I think this is a very old human desire. It's nothing new.
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我認為這是一種存在已久的人類渴望，不是什麼新聞，
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But the thing about self-expression
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但一談到自我表達這件事，
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is that there's traditionally been this imbalance
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通常我們就會想到一個不對等的狀況，
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between the desire that we have to express ourselves
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那就是我們對於表達自己意見的渴望，
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and the number of sympathetic friends
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其渴求程度遠遠大於願意聆聽
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who are willing to stand around and listen.
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我們意見的朋友人數。
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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This, also, is nothing new.
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這也不是什麼新聞了。
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Since the dawn of human history, we've tried to rectify this imbalance
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自有人類歷史以來，人類總試圖藉由藝術創造、
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by making art, writing poems, singing songs,
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寫詩、唱歌、寫些社論投稿到報社、
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scripting editorials and sending them in to a newspaper,
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或和朋友們八卦一番，來改善這種不對等的狀況，
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gossiping with friends. This is nothing new.
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這也不是什麼新聞。
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What's new is that in the last several years
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真正的新聞是在過去幾年，
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a lot of these very traditional physical human activities,
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這些傳統人類用來抒發自我的活動，
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these acts of self-expression, have been moving onto the Internet.
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全都移到網路上去了。
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And as that's happened, people have been leaving behind footprints,
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在網路發達後，人們開始在網路上留下自己的足跡，
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footprints that tell stories of their moments of self-expression.
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也就是留下可以表達自我的各種故事。
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And so what I do is, I write computer programs
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而我所做的，就是撰寫一些電腦程式，
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that study very large sets of these footprints,
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蒐集大量的故事文章，
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and then try to draw conclusions about the people who left them --
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然後試圖在這些文章背後找出某些蛛絲馬跡，
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what they feel, what they think,
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我想知道這些人的感受、想法，
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what's different in the world today than usual,
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我也想知道現在的世界和以往究竟有何不同，
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these sorts of questions.
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我想知道這類問題的答案。
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One project that explores these ideas,
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有一個專案就是在探討這些問題，
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which was made about a year ago,
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我們在一年以前開啟了這個專案，
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is a piece called We Feel Fine.
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「我們覺得很好」專案。
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This is a piece that every two or three minutes
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這個程式會每隔二到三分鐘，
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scans the world's newly-posted blog entries
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上網蒐尋最新發佈的部落格文章，
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for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" or "I am feeling."
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我們設定的關鍵字是「我覺得...」或「我感到...」，
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And when it finds one of those phrases,
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只要找到這種關鍵字，
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it grabs the sentence up to the period,
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程式就會把那句話擷取下來，
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and then automatically tries to deduce the age, gender
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然後開始自動分析發表文章的人，看他的年齡、
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and geographical location of the person that wrote that sentence.
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性別和所在的城市為何。
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Then, knowing the geographical location and the time,
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一旦知道作者的城市和發表文章的時間，
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we can also then figure out the weather
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我們就可以相對應地找出
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when that person wrote the sentence.
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作者在寫這個句子時的天氣如何。
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All of this information is saved in a database
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我們把所有的資訊都儲存在資料庫裡，
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that collects about 20,000 feelings a day.
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每天約可收集到二萬筆各種人們的感覺資訊。
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It's been running for about a year and a half.
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這個專案已經進行了一年半左右，
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It's reached about seven-and-a-half million human feelings now.
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蒐集到約750萬則人們的感覺，
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And I'll show you a glimpse
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我來讓各位看看
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of how this information is then visualized. So this is We Feel Fine.
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這些資訊畫成圖表的樣子，這就是「我們覺得很好」，
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What you see here is a madly swarming mass of particles,
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各位所看到的是一大群小點點，
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each of which represents a single human feeling
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每一個點就代表某個人的感覺，
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that was stated in the last few hours.
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這是我們在前幾個小時所蒐集到的感覺。
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The color of each particle corresponds to the type of feeling inside --
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點點的顏色就代表感覺的類型，
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so that happy, positive feelings are brightly colored.
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像是快樂、正面的感覺就用明亮的色彩，
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And sad, negative feelings are darkly colored.
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悲傷、負面的感覺就用灰暗的顏色。
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The diameter of each dot
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每一個小點的直徑
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represents the length of the sentence inside,
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就代表那個句子的長度，
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so that the large dots contain large sentences,
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句子愈長，圓點就愈大，
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and the small dots contain small sentences.
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小的點點就表示句子很短。
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Any dot can be clicked and expanded. And we see here,
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每個小點都能用滑鼠點開，看到句子內容，像是：
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"I would just feel so much better
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「如果我能踡進他的臂彎，
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if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me
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讓他擁抱我，我就能感受到他的愛意包圍著我，
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in the embrace of his body and the tenderness of his lips."
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感受到他溫柔的唇，我就會覺得好過一點。」
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So it gets pretty hot and steamy sometimes
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有時人類的情緒
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in the world of human emotions.
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是可以很火熱也很煽情的，
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And all of these are stated by people:
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這些全都是網路上的人所寫的文字：
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"I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much,
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「我知道客觀上來說這不算什麼，
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but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond,
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但在一個大池塘裡當了那麼多年的小魚之後，
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it's nice to feel bigger again."
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我很高興能覺得自己又變成了一條大魚。」
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The dots exhibit human qualities. They kind of have their own physics,
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這些小點把每個人的情緒都表露出來，像是有自己的個性一般，
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and they swarm wildly around, kind of exploring the world of life.
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成為一個又一個的群體，又有點像是真實人生的縮影。
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And then they also exhibit curiosity.
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這些小點也呈現出某種趣味，
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You can see a few of them are swarming around the cursor right now.
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有些聚集在這個游標附近，
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You can see some other ones
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有一些則聚集在
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are swarming around the bottom left corner of the screen
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螢幕左下角
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around six words. Those six words represent the six movements
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那六個字附近。那六個字代表了「我們覺得很好」
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of We Feel Fine. We're currently seeing Madness.
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的六種面向，我們現在看到的是狂亂，
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There's also Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics and Mounds.
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還有喃喃自語、剪輯、分類、數據和山丘圖。
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And I'll walk you through a few of those now.
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接下來我會一一介紹。
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Murmurs causes all of the feelings to fly to the ceiling.
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喃喃自語會把每個人的感覺從螢幕上方放下來，
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And then, one by one, in reverse chronological order,
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由新到舊，一個一個呈現出來，
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they excuse themselves, entering the scrolling list of feelings.
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每一個都排列在捲軸式清單裡，
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"I feel a bit better now."
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「我覺得好過多了。」
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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"I feel confused and unsure of what the hell I want to do."
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「我覺得很困惑，完全不知道自己要做什麼。」
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"I feel gypped out of something awesome here."
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「我覺得自己被這些假象給騙了！」
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"I feel so free; I feel so good."
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「我覺得很自由、很好！」
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"I feel like I'm in this fog of depression that I can't get out of."
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「我覺得自己被一片愁雲慘霧所籠罩，完全走不出去。」
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And you can click any of these to go out and visit the blog
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你只要點開這些小點點，就可以連回這些語句
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from which it was collected. And in that way,
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原先所在的部落格，
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you can connect with the authors of these statements
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你可以和這些語句的作者聯絡，
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if you feel some degree of empathy.
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表達你的同情。
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The next movement is called Montage.
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下一個面向是剪輯，
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Montage causes all of the feelings that contain photographs
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也就是把附有照片的感覺剪輯下來，
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to become extracted and display themselves in a grid.
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一格一格地呈現出來。
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This grid is then said to represent the picture of the world's feelings
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我們可以把這些一格一格的照片視為過去幾個小時
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in the last few hours, if you will.
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這個世界的心情寫照，
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Each of these can be clicked and we can blow it up.
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每一張照片都可以點開，
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We see, "I just feel like I'm not going to have fun
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你會看到：「我覺得如果不是和你在一起，
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if it's not the both of us." That was from someone in Michigan.
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世界就不會那麼有趣。」這是密西根某個人寫的，
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We see, "I feel like I have been at a computer all day."
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還有，「我覺得自己好像已經打了一整天的電腦。」
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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These are automatically constructed using the found objects:
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這些都是用我們找到的句子自動剪輯下來的，
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"I think I feel a little full."
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「我覺得有點飽。」
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The next movement is called mobs.
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下一個面向叫做分類，
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Mobs provides different statistical breakdowns
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我們將過去幾個小時內所蒐集到的感覺句子，
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of the population of the world's feelings in the last few hours.
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以統計分析的方式加以分類，
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We see that "better" is the most frequent feeling right now,
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我們會看到「好多了」是目前出現頻率最高的感覺，
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followed by "good," "bad," "guilty," "right," "down," "sick" and so on.
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接下來是很好、糟糕、罪惡感、正確、沮喪及不舒服等。
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We can also get a gender breakdown.
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我們還可以依性別分類，
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And we see that women are slightly more prolific
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我們會發現，女性談論情感的頻率，
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talking about their emotions in the last few hours than men.
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在過去這幾個小時裡是比男性稍高一些。
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We can do an age breakdown, which gives us a histogram
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我們還可以依年齡分類，我們可以看到這個長條圖，
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of the world's emotional distribution by age.
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呈現出全世界依年齡分類的情緒發洩分佈狀況。
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We see people in their twenties are the most prolific,
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我們發現，二十多歲的年輕人頻率最高，
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followed by teenagers, and then people in their thirties,
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接下來是青少年，然後是三十多歲的人，
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and it dies out very quickly from there.
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再後面的人就幾乎沒有發表什麼情緒。
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In weather, the feelings assume the physical characteristics
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我們會以各種天氣的特徵
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of the weather that they represent,
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來代表各種不同的感覺，
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so that the ones collected on a sunny day
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像是旋轉的渦旋就代表了充滿陽光的日子，
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swirl around as if they're part of the sun.
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因為那渦旋就像是陽光的一部分；
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The cloudy ones float along as if they're on a breeze.
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漂浮在微風裡的粒子，就代表了陰天；
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The rainy ones fall down as if they're in a rainstorm,
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像暴風雨般落下的代表雨天；
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and the snowy ones kind of flutter to the ground.
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在地上飄動的就代表下雪天。
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Finally, location causes the feelings to move to their positions
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最後，我們會把從世界各地蒐集而來的感覺語句，
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on a world map showing the geographical distribution of feelings.
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依其地點放回到世界地圖上，以看出地理上的分佈狀況。
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Metrics provides more numerical views on the data.
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數據則是以將資料以數據方式呈現，
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We see that the world is feeling "used"
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可以看到，現在網路上，覺得「被利用了」
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at 3.3 times the normal level right now.
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的人數是平常的3.3倍；
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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They're feeling "warm" at 2.9 times the normal level, and so on.
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覺得「很溫暖」的則是平常的2.9倍，
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Other views are also available.
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還有其他的數據，
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Here are gender, age, weather, location.
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像是性別、年齡、天氣和地理位置等。
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The final movement is called Mounds.
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最後一個面向稱為山丘圖，
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It's a bit different from the others.
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和前面幾個稍微有點不一樣，
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Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs
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山丘圖是把整個資料庫描繪成一個很大的膠狀團塊，
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which kind of jiggle.
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還會抖動個不停，
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And if I hold down my cursor, they do a little dance.
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如果我把滑鼠往下滑，他們就會像跳舞一樣抖動。
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We see "better" is the most frequent feeling, followed by "bad."
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我們發現「好多了」是目前出現頻率最高的，後面接著的是「糟糕」，
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And then if I go over here, the list begins to scroll,
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如果我往後移，整個清單就會開始轉動，
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and there are actually thousands of feelings that have been collected.
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你會看到我們蒐集到數以千計的感覺。
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You can see the little pink cursor moving along,
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你可以看到這個小小的粉紅色游標，
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representing our position.
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代表我們現在所在的位置，
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Here we see people that feel "slipping," "nauseous," "responsible."
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像是有人覺得「變糟了」、「厭惡」、「負責任的」。
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There's also a search capability,
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裡面還有搜尋功能，
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if you're interested in finding out about a certain population.
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可以讓你找到某一個特定的族群，
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For instance, you could find women who feel "addicted"
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舉例來說，你可以搜尋在孟加拉的陰天時，
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in their 20s when it was cloudy in Bangladesh.
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有「沈迷」感的二十歲女性。
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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But I'll spare you that.
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這些就留給你們自己去發掘吧...
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So here are some of my favorite montages that have been collected:
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接下來我要給各位看看我最喜歡的幾張剪輯：
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"I feel so much of my dad alive in me that there isn't even room for me."
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「我覺得父親還活在我心裡，佔據了我所有的心念。」
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"I feel very lonely."
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「我覺得很孤單。」
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"I need to be in some backwoods redneck town
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「我覺得自己在偏遠農民的眼中，
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so that I can feel beautiful."
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才算漂亮。」
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"I feel invisible to you."
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「我覺得你眼裡沒有我。」
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"I wouldn't hide it if society didn't make me feel like I needed to."
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「我不會遮掩，除非你們逼我這樣做。」
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"I feel in love with Carolyn." "I feel so naughty."
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「我覺得我愛上了卡洛琳。」「我是個頑皮鬼。」
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"I feel these weirdoes are actually an asset to college life."
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「我覺得這些怪胎真是大學校園裡的寶。」
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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"I love how I feel today."
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「我喜歡今天的感覺。」
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So as you can see, We Feel Fine uses a technique
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各位可以看到，「我們覺得很好」所運用的技術，
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that I call "passive observation."
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是我稱之為「被動觀察」的技術，
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What I mean by that is that it passively observes people
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也就是我們從旁被動地觀察人群，
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as they live their lives. It scans the world's blogs
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看他們是怎麼過活的。我們掃視全世界的部落格，
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and looks at what people are writing,
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看看每個人在寫些什麼，
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and these people don't know they're being watched or interviewed.
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但這些部落格主並不知道有人在觀察他們，
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And because of that,
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也因為這樣，
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you end up getting very honest, candid, sincere responses
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我們得到的是最真誠、最坦白、最真摯的反應，
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that are often very moving.
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永遠都最感人。
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And this is a technique that I usually prefer in my work
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這是我最喜歡的技術，
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because people don't know they're being interviewed.
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因為大家並不知道自己是受訪的對象，
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They're just living life, and they end up just acting like that.
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他們的日子還是照過，所以才會有這些反應。
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Another technique is directly questioning people.
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另外一個技術是直接詢問人們的感覺，
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And this is a technique that I explored in a different project,
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這個技術是我在另一個專案上開發出來的技術，
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the Yahoo! Time Capsule,
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也就是「Yahoo!時空膠囊」，
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which was designed to take a fingerprint of the world in 2006.
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原先是為了蒐集2006年全世界每個人的手印而設計，
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It was divided into ten very simple themes --
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其中有十個非常簡單的主題，
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love, anger, sadness and so on --
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像是愛、憤怒、悲傷等等，
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each of which contained a single, very open-ended question
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我們為每一個主題設計了一個開放式的問題，
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put to the world: What do you love? What makes you angry?
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我們會問：你愛什麼？你為什麼生氣？
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What makes you sad? What do you believe in? And so on.
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你為什麼悲傷？你信仰什麼？這一類的。
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The time capsule was available for one month online,
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那時我們線上開放「時空膠囊」為期一個月，
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translated into 10 languages, and this is what it looked like.
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翻成十國語言，這就是「時空膠囊」，
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It's a spinning globe,
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像個旋轉的球體，
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the surface of which is entirely composed of the pictures
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球體的表面覆滿了
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and words and drawings of people
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大家上傳到「時空膠囊」
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that submitted to the time capsule.
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的照片、文字和插圖，
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The ten themes radiate out and orbit the time capsule.
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那十個主題發射出光芒，繞行這個「時空膠囊」。
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You can sift through this data and see what people have submitted.
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你可以點選這些資料，看大家都上傳了什麼，
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This is in response to, What's beautiful? "Miss World."
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像是針對「什麼最美？」這個問題，就有人上傳「環球小姐」。
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There are two modes to the time capsule.
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「時空膠囊」有二個模式，
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There's One World, which presents the spinning globe,
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現在這個轉動的是一個模式，稱為「一個世界」，
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and Many Voices, which splits the data out into film strips
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另一個模式是「不同聲音」，以底片的方式呈現，
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and lets you sift through them one by one.
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你可以一個一個點選這些影片。
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So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event,
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這個專案還舉辦了一個令人讚歎的活動，
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which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico
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活動地點選在新墨西哥州的黑梅茲．帕布羅市郊的沙漠裡，
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at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights,
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一連舉辦了三天，
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the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides
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「時空膠囊」的內容全被投射在
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of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls,
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紅岩峽谷的古老岩石上，
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which stand about 200 feet tall. It was really incredible.
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那塊岩石約有60公尺高，真的很壯觀！
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And we also projected the contents of the time capsule
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我們還把「時空膠囊」裡的內容，
10:26
as binary code using a 35-watt laser into outer space.
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轉成二進位制，以35瓦的雷射光向太空投射，
10:29
You can see the orange line leaving the desert floor
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你可以看到有一道橘色的光束從沙漠中
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at about a 45 degree angle there. This was amazing
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以45度角向天空發射，那真的很棒！
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because the first night I looked at all this information
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就在我第一晚在那裡看這些內容時，
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and really started seeing the gaps that I talked about earlier --
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真的就看到了我先前所談的各項人類差異，
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the differences in age, gender and wealth and so on.
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像是年齡差異、性別差異和財富差異等，
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But, you know, as I looked at this more and more and more,
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但當我看得愈久，
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and saw these images go across the rocks,
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看著這些影像投射在岩石上，
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I realized I was seeing the same archetypal events
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我愈發現我看的是相同的事情，
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depicted again and again and again.
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只是一次又一次由不同的人演出而已，
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You know: weddings, births, funerals, the first car, the first kiss,
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就像是婚禮、小孩出生、葬禮、買第一部車、初吻、
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the first camel or horse -- depending on the culture.
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買第一隻駱駝或馬，就看是在什麼文化之下，
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And it was really moving. And this picture here was taken
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那真的很感人！這張照片是在最後一晚照的，
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the final night from a distant cliff about two miles away,
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我們在三公里外的一個岩石上拍下這張照片，
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where the contents of the capsule were being beamed into space.
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我們可以看到那些載有影片內容的光束被投射到外太空去，
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And there was something very moving
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看著我們人類的各種喜怒哀樂
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about all of this human expression being shot off into the night sky.
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被投射到夜晚的天空上，真的很感人！
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And it started to make me think a lot about the night sky,
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我開始想到許多關於夜空的事，
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and how humans have always used the night sky
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人類不是早在很久以前就利用夜空
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to project their great stories.
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來講述許多偉大的故事嗎？
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You know, as a child in Vermont, on a farm where I grew up,
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我小的時候住在佛蒙特，我是在農場長大的，
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I would often look up into the dark sky
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我常會看著漆黑的天空，
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and see the three star belt of Orion, the Hunter.
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看著獵戶座腰帶上的那三顆星，
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And as an adult, I've been more aware
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到我長大之後，我更常想到
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of the great Greek myths playing out in the sky overhead every night.
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希臘神話每天都在夜空裡上演：
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You know, Orion facing the roaring bull.
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獵戶座正對著咆哮的金牛座，
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Perseus flying to the rescue of Andromeda.
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柏修斯飛去拯救安朵美達(仙女座)，
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Zeus battling Chronos for control of Mount Olympus.
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宙斯為了奪取奧林帕斯的控制權而大戰柯羅諾斯，
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I mean, these are the great tales of the Greeks.
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這些都是偉大的希臘神話，
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And it caused me to wonder about our world today.
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讓我聯想到現在的世界，
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And it caused me to wonder specifically,
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讓我特別想到
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if we could make new constellations today,
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如果現代的我們能創造新的星座，
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what would those look like? What would those be?
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那會長什麼樣子？我們又會怎麼命名？
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If we could make new pictures in the sky, what would we draw?
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如果我們能在天空上作畫，我們會畫什麼？
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What are the great stories of today?
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現在最偉大的故事是什麼？
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And those are the questions that inspired my new project,
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這些問題讓我又開始了一項新的專案，
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which is debuting here today at TED.
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這個專案還沒有對外公開，
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Nobody's seen this yet, publicly.
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今天在TED算是首度露面，
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It's called Universe: Revealing Our Modern Mythology.
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專案名稱為「宇宙」，以現代神話的型式表現，
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And it uses this metaphor of an interactive night sky.
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並引用互動式夜空的概念。
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So, it's my great pleasure now to show this to you.
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我很高興能為各位介紹這個專案，
12:16
So, Universe will open here.
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現在，這是「宇宙」的開始畫面。
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And you'll see that it leads with a shifting star field,
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你會看到一個可以移動的星空，
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and there's an Aurora Borealis in the background,
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背後有北極光做背景，
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kind of morphing with color. The color of the Aurora Borealis
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顏色會變化，北極光的顏色
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can be controlled using this single bar of color at the bottom,
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可以用下方的顏色區塊來控制，
12:31
and we'll put it down here to red.
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我們來把顏色改成紅色。
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So you see this kind of -- these stars moving along.
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你會看到這些星星在移動，
12:36
Now, these aren't just little points of light, little pixels.
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這些不只是小光點而已，
12:39
Each of those stars actually represents
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套句某個人說過的話，
12:41
a specific event in the real world --
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每一顆星星都代表著
12:44
a quote that was stated by somebody, an image,
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真實世界所發生的事情，像是一張照片、
12:47
a news story, a person, a company. You know,
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一個故事、一個人或一間公司，
12:50
some kind of heroic personality.
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有點英雄主義的味道。
12:53
And you might notice that as the cursor begins
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當游標指到某些星星時，
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to touch some of these stars, that shapes begin to emerge.
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你會看到某種形狀漸漸顯示出來，
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We see here there's a little man walking along, or maybe a woman.
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像這裡就是一個小人在走路，或許是女人也說不定；
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And we see here a photograph with a head.
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而這裡，則是一張大頭照；
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You can start to see words emerging here.
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有些字句會浮現出來，
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And those are
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這些就是星座，
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the constellations of today.
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就是現代版的星座。
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And I can turn them all on,
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我可以把他們全都點開，
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and you can see them moving across the sky now.
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你會看到他們在天空上移動。
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This is the universe of 2007, the last two months.
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這是2007年最後二個月的宇宙天空，
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The data from this is global news coverage
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這些是全世界數以千計的媒體
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from thousands of news sources around the world.
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所播報出來的新聞。
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It's using the API of a really great company that I work with
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這個專案所使用的應用程式界面是由和我合作的
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in New York, actually, called Daylife.
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在紐約的Daylife公司。
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And it's kind of the zeitgeist view at this level
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這裡所呈現出來的，有點像是過去幾個月來
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of the world's current mythology over the last couple of months.
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世界發展軌跡的縮影，
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So we can see where it's emerging here, like President Ford,
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我們可以看看這裡有些什麼，像是福特總統、
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Iraq, Bush. And we can actually isolate just the words --
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伊拉克、布希等。我們還可以把字句單獨挑出來，
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I call them secrets -- and we can cause them to form
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我稱之為「祕密」，這樣就可以產生一個
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an alphabetical list. And we see Anna Nicole Smith
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按照字母排列的清單，我們可以看到安娜．妮可．史密斯
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playing a big role recently.
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最近很出風頭；
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President Ford -- this is Gerald Ford's funeral.
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福特總統--這是吉拉德．福特的葬禮。
13:56
We can actually click anything in Universe
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我們可以在「宇宙」裡點選任何一點，
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and have it become the center of the universe,
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讓這一點變成宇宙的中心，
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and everything else will enter its orbit.
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其他的東西則會進入它的軌道。
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So, we'll click Ford, and now that becomes the center.
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現在我們點選福特，它就變成了中心，
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And the things that relate to Ford enter its orbit
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和福特相關的新聞就會進入軌道，
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and swirl around it.
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繞著它轉。
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We can isolate just the photographs, and we now see those.
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我們也可以把照片挑出來，就像這樣，
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We can click on one of those
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點選其中一張照片，
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and have the photograph be the center of the universe.
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那張照片就會成為宇宙的中心，
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Now the things that relate to it are swirling around.
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和它相關的新聞就會繞著它轉。
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We can click on this and we see this iconic image
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點選這裡，就會看到一張經典照片，
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of Betty Ford kissing her husband's coffin.
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貝蒂．福特親吻她丈夫的棺材。
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In Universe, there's kind of no end. It just goes infinitely,
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在宇宙裡，一切都沒有盡頭，每件事都會無限延伸，
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and you can just kind of click on stuff.
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有許多項目可以點選。
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This is a photographic representation, called Snapshots.
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這裡陳列的是照片，我們稱之為「剪影」，
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But we can actually be more specific in defining our universe.
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我們可以更明確地定義這個宇宙，
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So, if we want to,
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所以如果我們想要的話，
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let's check out what Bill Clinton's universe looks like.
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我們可以看看柯林頓的宇宙長什麼樣子，
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And let's see, in the past week, what he's been up to.
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我們來看看在過去幾週裡，他都在做些什麼。
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So now, we have a new universe, which is just constrained
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好，我們有一個新的宇宙了，這個宇宙包含了
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to all things Bill Clinton.
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柯林頓的一切活動，
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We can have his constellations emerge here.
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我們可以把他的星座放在這裡，
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We can pull out his secrets,
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把他的祕密點選出來，
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and we see that it has a lot to do with candidates,
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我們可以看到他的新聞都是有關總統候選人
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Hillary, presidential, Barack Obama.
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希拉蕊和歐巴馬的新聞，
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We can see the stories
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我們會看到
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that Bill Clinton is taking part in right now.
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現在柯林頓也參與其中了，
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Any of those can be opened up.
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所有的新聞都可以點選開來，
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So we see Obama and the Clintons meet in Alabama.
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你看到歐巴馬和柯林頓在阿拉巴馬會面，
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You can see that this is an important story;
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那是一則很重要的新聞，
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there are a lot of things in its orbit. If we open this up,
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所以又有很多新聞環繞著它，如果我們點開來看，
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we get different perspectives on this story.
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我們就會看到這則新聞的其他面向。
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You can click any of those to go out and read the article
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點選任何一則新聞，就能看到全文及其出處
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at the source. This one's from Al Jazeera.
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這則是來自半導電視台的報導。
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We can also see the superstars. These would be the people
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我們還可以看看其他相關的明星，
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that are kind of the looming heroes and heroines
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也就是在柯林頓的宇宙中，
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in the universe of Bill Clinton. So there's Bill Clinton, Hillary,
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相關的英雄配角們，像是柯林頓、希拉蕊、
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Iraq, George Bush, Barack Obama, Scooter Libby --
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伊拉克、布希、歐巴馬、史古托．利比等，
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these are kind of the people of Bill Clinton.
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這些都是環繞在柯林頓身旁的配角。
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We can also see a world map, so this shows us the geographic reach
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我們也可以來看看世界地圖，看看柯林頓在過去一週
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of Bill Clinton in the last week or so.
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到過什麼地方，
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We can see he's been focused in America
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像是他最近在待在美國，
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because he's been campaigning, probably,
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或許是因為要參加競選活動的關係，
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but a little bit of action over here in the Middle East.
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但他在中東也有短暫露面。
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And then we can also see a timeline.
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我們也可以來看看他的時間安排，
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So we see that he was a bit quiet on Saturday,
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我們會看到他在星期六的活動好像很少，
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but he was back to work on Sunday morning,
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但星期日一早就會回復活躍，
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and actually been tapering off since then this week.
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但活動量從星期日後就逐漸減少。
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And it's not limited to just people or dates,
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在這個宇宙裡，不僅可以指定人物或日期，
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but we can actually put in concepts also.
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還可以指定某種概念，
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So if I put in climate change for all of 2006,
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像是我可以輸入2006年的氣候變遷，
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we'll see what that universe looks like.
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看看相關的新聞是什麼。
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Here we have our star field. Here we have our shapes.
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這就是這個主題的星空、形狀、
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Here we have our secrets.
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和祕密。
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So we see again, climate change is large:
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氣候變遷這個主題真的很大，
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Nairobi, global conference, environmental.
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涵蓋奈洛比、全球會議及環保議題等，
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And there are also quotes that you can see,
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如果你對氣候變遷相關的經典名句有興趣，
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if you're interested in reading about quotes on climate change.
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也可以點選看看有什麼經典名句，
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You know, this is really an infinite thing.
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這是一個無窮無盡的世界。
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The superstars of climate change in 2006:
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2006年氣候變遷的配角包括
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United States, Britain, China. You know,
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美國、英國、中國，
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these are the towering countries that kind of define this concept.
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其實就是這些國家定義出氣候變遷這個概念的。
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So this is a piece that demands exploration.
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這個宇宙很值得大家探索。
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This will be online in several days, probably next Tuesday.
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過幾天這個程式就會上線，或許會在下星期二，
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And you'll all be able to use it and kind of explore
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你可以利用這個程式來探索
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what your own personal mythology might be.
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你個人的神話故事。
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You'll notice that in Daylife -- rather, in Universe --
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你會注意到，Daylife這家公司，或者說「宇宙」這個程式，
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it supports both the notion of a global mythology,
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不只可以讓你看到全球的神話故事，
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which is represented by something as broad as, say, 2007,
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涵蓋了2007年全部的事件，
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and also a personal mythology.
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也可以讓你看到個人的神話故事。
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As you search for the things that are important to you in your world,
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你可以上去搜尋對你而言重要的新聞，
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and then see what the constellations of those might look like.
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看看由那些新聞所組成的星座長什麼樣子。
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So it's been a pleasure. Thank you very much.
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很高興能在這裡演說，謝謝各位！
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jonathan Harris - Artist, storyteller, Internet anthropologistArtist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world's expression -- and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet.
Why you should listen
Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Harris' work celebrates the world's diversity even as it illustrates the universal concerns of its occupants. His computer programs scour the Internet for unfiltered content, which his beautiful interfaces then organize to create coherence from the chaos.
His projects are both intensely personal (the "We Feel Fine" project, made with Sep Kanvar, which scans the world's blogs to collect snapshots of the writers' feelings) and entirely global (the new "Universe," which turns current events into constellations of words). But their effect is the same -- to show off a world that resonates with shared emotions, concerns, problems, triumphs and troubles.
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