研究:人類完成數字化時代的過渡

If you think that you are suffering from information overload then you may be right - a new study shows everyone is bombarded by the equivalent of 174 newspapers of data a day.

如果你認爲自己正在遭受着信息過量的困擾，那麼你這種想法有可能是正確的。一項最新研究發現，每人每天要面臨着相當於174份報紙的信息量的"狂轟濫炸"。

The growth in the internet, 24-hour television and mobile phones means that we now receive five times as much information every day as we did in 1986.

近年來，互聯網、“24小時不間斷”電視、移動電話不斷髮展，意味着我們每天收到的信息量是1986年的五倍。

But that pales into insignificance compared with the growth in the amount of information we churn out through email, twitter, social networking sites and text messages.

比起人們通過電子郵件、維特網、社交網絡和短信“粗製濫造”的信息量，這些太微不足道了。The extent of the information revolution and digital age has been calculated by Dr Martin Hilbert and his team at the University of southern California.

南加利福尼亞大學的馬丁 希爾伯特教授和他的研究團隊預測，人類已經步入信息革命和數字化進程。

The researchers surveyed 60 categories of analogue and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007, and the results reflect our near complete transition to the digital age.

在1986-2007年期間，科學家對60種模擬技術和數字技術進行調查研究，結果顯示，人類已經完成數字時代的過渡。

Using the analogy of an 85 page newspaper, they found that in 1986 we received around 40 newspapers full of information every day but this had rocketed to 174 in 2007.

他們發現，如果用85頁報紙來比喻，在1986年，人們每天接收的信息量相當於40份報紙刊載的信息量，然而，到了2007年，這個數字已經飛漲到174份。