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Staying Connected Or Losing Connection?

Recently, I was walking in a park with a friend, and his mobile phone rang, interrupting our talk. There we were, walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and oops, I become invisible, absent from the conversation.

I’m wondering how strange it is that the telephone used to connect you to the absent, but now, it makes people who sitting next to you feel absent.

That’s the funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution, we stopped talking to another. It is that all the communications technology tools make me feel lonely.

Every advance in communications technology is a setback to the intimacy of human interaction. You can’t even call a person to get the phone number of another person anymore. Directory assistance is becoming increasingly automated.

I’m not a Luddite. I know that if I dial 110,I could get instant help in only 3 minutes from policeman whenever and wherever. What’s more, I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail system, and E-mail account. Giving them up is an option. But as a matter of fact, they are great for what they are intended to do, it’s their unintended consequences that make me cringe.

The communications industry devoted to facilitating my anti-social instincts. So, I’m starting my own technology revolution: no more instant messaging with people who live near me; no more talking on the mobile in the presents of friends; no more letting the voice-mail pick up a call when I’m free.

Can you imagine that: if there is no one in the room to hear you exclaim: that’s miraculous! So, tell me what good is all this miraculous technology?

參考譯文：

保持聯繫還是失去聯繫?

前不久，與一個朋友在公園裏散步，他的手機忽然響了，打斷了我們的談話，如此陽光明媚的日子，我們愉快地談着話。可是，突然，我卻變成了被忽略的局外人，被摒棄在談話之外。

我於是在想這樣奇怪的一種現象：電話本用來聯繫不在場的人，而現在，卻讓在你身邊的人感覺不在場似的。

就是如此讓人啼笑皆非的事發生在現今通信改革的過程中，我們不再互相交談，所有的'讓人們增進接觸的工具讓我們更孤單。

通信技術的進步都給人類互相之間的親密交流增設一道新障礙，甚至再也沒法打電話去詢問別人的電話號碼，自動化程度日益提高的電話號碼查詢系統能幫你搞定一切。

我不是反對自動化的人，我知道如果我有麻煩撥打110，我可以在任何時候任何地方在3分鐘之內得到警方的幫助。而且，我有一部手機，一張ATM卡，一部語言郵件系統，一個電子郵件賬號，放棄他們可不是我要的。而實際上，就人們希望他們做的事，他們做得很好，是那些副作用讓我們困惑。

竭誠幫助人們更好地互相聯繫的電信事業，卻助長了我疏於交際的天性。為此，我開始自己的革命，對在我附近的人，不使用短信息;不在朋友在場時用手機講話;當我有空時不用語音系統接電話。

你能想象，倘若你獨自一人驚歎：“這些太神氣了!”而無人呼應，那又有什麼樂趣呢?