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同样，我们也不需要电冰箱知道什么时候没有牛奶。我们已经有了一糕的是，你不知道电冰箱把这句话告诉了别的什么人。（“嘿：鲍勃！个傻瓜也明白的万无一失的方法来确定牛奶是否喝完：我们可以问一听说你的芹菜发蔫了！”）如果你想让你的冰箱停下来，你不得不被破下妻子。我们需要的是这样一台电冰箱：当它意识到我们要在两小时译由核物理学家编写的用户使用手册指南。（“取消产品保鲜监控功内就要把第四个吉露果子冻布丁吃完时，冰箱门就再也打不开了。 能：进入命令模式，然后选择编辑功能，再选择变化蔬菜默认值，然

As for a scale that transmits our weight to the gym: Are they nuts? 后假设火车A从芝加哥以47英里/小时的速度向西行驶，火车We don‘t want our weight transmitted to our own eyeballs! What if the B??”）。 gym decided to trainsmit our weight to all these other appliances on the Is this the kind of future you want, consumers? Do you want Internet? What if, God forbid, our refrigerator found out what our weight appliances that are smarter than you? Your appliances should be dumber was! We‘d never get the door open again!至于可以把我们的体重传送than you, just like your furniture, your pets and your represetatives in 到健身房的磅秤：这是不是疯了？我们自己都不想看到自己的体重！Congress. So Iam urging you to let the appliance industry know, by 如果健身房决定把我们的体重传给网上的其他电器怎么办？要是电phone, letter, fax and e-mail, that when it comes to ―smart‖appliances, 冰箱知道我们的体重会怎么样呢？但愿不会如此。否则，我们将再也you vote NO.You need to act quickly. Because while you‘re reading this, 不能打开冰箱门了！ your microwave oven is voting YES.消费者们：这就是你们所期望的未

But here is what really concerns me about these new ―smart‖ 来吗？你希望电器比你还聪明？当然不是。家用电器应该比你笨，就appliances:Even if we like the features, we won‘t be able to use them. We 像你的家具、宠物和国会众议员一样。所以我敦促你们通过电话、信can‘t use the appliance features we have now. I have a feature-packed 件、传真或电子邮件的方式让电器制造厂商知道：当论及“智能电器”telephone with 43 buttons, at least 20 of which I am afraid to touch. This 时你们会投反对票。必须尽快行动。因为在你读这篇文章时，你的微phone probably can communicate with the dead, but I don‘t know to 波炉正在投赞成票。 operate it, just as I don‘t know how to operate my TV, which requires 六、The Right to Fail

three remote controls. One control (44 buttons ) came with the TV; a 1、I like ―dropout‖as an addition to the American language because it‘s second (39 buttons )came with the VCR; the third (37 buttons ) was brief and it‘s clear. What I don‘t like is that we use it almost entirely as a brought here by the cable man, who apparently felt that I did not have dirty word.我喜欢“中途退出者”这个加入美语的词汇，因为它简洁enough buttons.但是对于这些新型的“智能”电器，我真正关心的是：明了。我所不喜欢的是我们几乎完全把它作为一个禁忌词语使用。 即使我们喜欢这些功能，我们也无法使用它们。甚至现在电器已有的2、We only apply it to people under twenty-one. Yet an adult who spends 功能我们也不会使用。我有一部功能齐全的电话机，上面有43个键，his days and nights watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout 但至少有20个功能健我是不敢碰的。这部电话或许可以与死人交流，than an eighteen-year-old who quits college, with its frequently mindless 我却不知如何使用。这就如同我不知道怎样操纵我的电视一样，它需courses, to become, say, a VISTA‘ valunteer. For the young, dropping out 要3个遥控器。其中一个遥控器（有44个功能键）与电视机相连，its often a way of dropping in.我们只把它用在21岁以下的人身上。与另一个（有39个功能键）与录像机配套；再一个（有37个功能键）一个中途离开大学、避开那些毫无思想内容的课程，志愿参加为美国是有线电视管理员带来的，显然他觉得我的遥控器的功能键还不够服务志愿队（VISTA）的18岁青年相比，一个整天整夜看不需要动多。 脑筋的电视节目的成年人更是半途而废的人。而对于年轻人来说这是

So when I want to watch TV, I‘m confronted with a total of 120 以退为进。

buttons, identified by such helpful labels as PIP , MTS, DBS, FZ, JUMP 3、To hold this opinion, however is little short of treason in America. A and BLANK. There are three buttons labeled POWER, but there are boy or girl who leaves college is branded a failure-and the right to fail is times-especially if my son and his friends, who are not afraid of features, one of the few freedoms that this country does not grant its citizens. The have changed the settings-when I honestly cannot figure out how to turn American dream is a dream of ―getting ahead,‖ painted in strokes of gold the TV on. I stand there, holding three remote controls, pressing buttons wherever we look. Our advertisements and TV commercials are a hymn at random, until eventually I give up and go turn on the dishwasher. It has to material success, our magazine articles a toast to people who made it to been, literally, years since I have successfully recorded a TV show. That the top. Smoke the right cigarette or drive the right car-so the ads is how ―smart‖my appliances have become.所以当我想看电视时，我面imply-and the girls will be swooning into your deodorized arms or 对的是120个功能键。通过诸多PIP、MTS、DBS、FZ、JUMP、BLANKcaressing your expensive lapels Happiness goes to the man who has 等有用的标签来识别它们的功能。其中3个功能键的标签都是sweet smell of achievement. He is our national idol, and everybody else POWER。但有些时候尤其是如果我儿子和他的朋友们——他们都不is our national fink.然而在美国，持有这种观点差不多就是背叛。中途害怕破坏原有的功能——改变了设置，我真不知道该如何打开电视退学的孩子们被指称为失败者—失败的权利是美国政府没有赋予国机。我站在那儿，手中握着3个遥控器胡乱地按着，直到最终放弃转民的少数几个自由之一。美国之梦是“成功”之梦，凡是我们放眼之而去开洗碗机。毫不夸张地说，我花了几年的工夫才学会了录制电视处都是一片金光灿烂。宣传广告和电视广告歌颂物质方面的成功，杂节目。我的电器就“智能”到了这种程度。 志文章赞誉获得此类成功的人。广告暗示你：吸适合你身份的烟、开

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