这样的事随时随地都有可能发生:在一次鸡尾酒宴上,有人提到了阿兰·布隆,你会意地点了点头,可你唯一能想到叫这个名字的人是你的牙医,而不是时下的畅销书作者阿兰·布隆。在家里,你又感到莫名的沮丧,原因是一点都不知道录相机上那些键盘的功能。工作时,你需要打个电话,却不会使用那台高级电话机。在生活中,我们被迫要积累许多知识,而知识时时都在更新。由此就导致了信息忧虑症,这就是我们对自己所能懂得的和认为自己应该懂得的这两者之间不断扩大的差距的忧虑。随着信息传播技术的日益普及,我们靠人工处理所有信息的可能性变得更加渺茫。我们好像处在一条高速运转的信息生产线末端,它永无休 Such things can happen anytime, anywhere: At a cocktail party, someone mentioned Alan Bloom and you nodded intentionally, but the only person who can think of the name is your dentist, not the best-selling Book author Alan Bloom. You feel frustrated again at home because you do not know the features of those keyboards on your video camera. When you work, you need to make a call, but you will not be using that high-end phone. In life, we are forced to accumulate a lot of knowledge, and knowledge is constantly updated. This leads to information anxiety, which is what worries us about the widening gap between what we know and what we think we should know. With the increasing popularity of information and communication technologies, the possibilities for us to process all information manually are slimmer. We seem to be at the end of a fast-moving information line, and it never stops