2024年3月30日发(作者：)

A Virtual Life

Maia Szalavitz, formerly a television producer, now spends her time as a

writer、 In this essay she explores digital reality and its consequences、 Along the

way, she pares the digital world to the "real" world, acknowledging the attractions

of the electronic dimension、

迈亚·塞拉维茨曾就是电视制片人,目前从事写作。她在本文中探索了数字化世界及其

后果。与此同时,她将数字化世界与真实世界做了比较,承认电子空间自有其魅力。

Maia Szalavitz

1 After too long on the Net, even a phone call can be a shock、 My

boyfriend's Liverpool accent suddenly bees impossible to interpret after his easily

understood words on screen; a secretary's clipped tone seems more rejecting than

I'd imagined it would be、 Time itself bees fluid -- hours bee minutes, or seconds

stretch into days、 Weekends, once a highlight of my week, are now just two

ordinary days、

虚拟世界得生活

迈亚·塞拉维茨

在网上呆了太久,听到电话铃声也会吓一大跳。显示屏上瞧多了我男朋友那些一目了

然得文字,她得利物浦口音一下子变得难以听懂;而秘书得清脆快速得语调听上去比我想象

得要生硬。时间本身变得捉摸不定——几小时变成几分钟,或几秒钟延伸为几天。周末原本

就是我一周得黄金时段,现在却不过就是平平常常得两天。

2 For the last three years, since I stopped working as a television producer,

I have done much of my work as a telemuter、 I submit articles and edit them via

email and municate with colleagues on Internet mailing lists、 My boyfriend lives

in England, so much of our relationship is also puter-assisted、

在我不再当电视制片人得这三年间,我得大部分工作都就是在家里使用计算机终端

进行得。我通过电子邮件投稿与校订,利用互联网上得人名地址与同行交流。我男朋友住在

英国,因此两人得关系也在很大程度上借助于电脑维系。

3 If I desired, I could stay inside for weeks without wanting anything、 I can

order food, and manage my money, love and work、 In fact, at times I have spent

as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to get mail and buy

newspapers and groceries、 I watched most of the endless snowstorm of '96 on

TV、

我要就是愿意得话,可以一连几个星期不出门而什么也不缺。我可以在网上订购食

品、网上理财、网上恋爱、网上工作。事实上我有时独自呆在家里长达三个星期,只偶尔出

去拿信、买报纸及日用品。1996年那一场接一场得暴风雪我大都就是在电视上瞧到得。

4 But after a while, life itself begins to feel unreal、 I start to feel as though

I've bee one with my machines, taking data in, spitting them back out, just another

link in the Net、 Others on line report the same symptoms、 We start to feel an