May 21

如果Ford说我们应该骑自行车而不是汽车,如果Bell说请我们用电报而不是电话,我们肯定以为他们疯了。不过,最近Google的CEO Eric Schmidt却在演讲时对美国大学的研究生说:你们应该少用电脑,少用手机。 他不会是开玩笑吧,要知道Google可是靠着网民的点击来盈利的公司。先看看他演讲的这段全文(翻墙后观看演讲视频:UPenn演讲, CMU演讲):

In a world where everything is remembered and kept forever, you should live for the future and the things you really care about… And what are those things? To figure this out you need to actually turn off your computer. I know this is difficult. You need to turn off your phone. You need to actually look at the people who are near you and around you and decide that it is humans who ultimately are the most important things to us and not the other aspects.

不错,电脑和手机真的是占用了我们大量的时间。当每天坐在电脑前,当把手放在键盘上,当双眼盯着屏幕时,我们往往会忘记之前我们要打算做什么。铺天盖地的新闻资讯,丰富多彩的娱乐内容,千奇百怪的奇闻异事,都吸引了人们太多的注意力 (Google热榜可以见证人们都在找些什么东西)。当大脑用大部分时间去接受(多数是先主动后被动)大量信息时,思考的时间就逐渐减少,思考将来,思考“the things you really care about”的时间就更少了。这也同样警告我:适量的接受信息的同时,更多是要去思考,思考现在和将来最应该做什么。Google成功的原因之一大概也就是最后一句说的那样:他们首要思考的不是技术,而是用户。

转引Businessweek上原文的一句话自勉:Success comes from trying new things.

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