2023届高三英语外刊语篇精读Day6 讲义

Day6 The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age 信息时代已经结束了，欢迎来到了体验时代 by Mike Wadhera Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end. Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we're now entering what I call the “Experience Age.” 【翻译】在万维网引入后的二十五年，信息时代即将结束。由于移动屏幕和互联网无处不在，我们现在正在进入我所说的“体验时代”。 When was the last time you updated your Facebook status? Maybe you no longer do? It's been reported that original status updates by Facebook's 1.6 billion users are down 21 percent. 【翻译】上次你更新脸书状态是什么时候？也许你再也不更新了？据报道，由最新的脸书16亿用户中原始状态下降了21%。 The status box is an icon of the Information Age, a period dominated by desktop computers and a company's mission to organize all the world's information. The icons of the Experience Age look much different, and are born from micro-computers, mobile sensors and high-speed connectivity. 【分析】这句的主干是The status box is an icon of the Information Age。a period是Information Age的同位语，dominated by desktop computers and a company's mission to organize all the world's information是后置定语修饰a period。 【翻译】状态框是信息时代的一个图标，一个由台式电脑控制的时期，这一时期公司的使命是组织全世界的信息。体验时代的图标看起来不同，产生于微型计算机、移动传感器和高速连接。 The death of the status box is a small part of a larger shift away from information moving toward experience. What's driving this shift? In short, the changing context of our online interactions, shaped by our connected devices. 【翻译】状态框的消逝是一个从信息走向体验的较大转变中的一小部分。是什么推动了这一转变？总之，网络互动不断变化的背景由连接设备形成。 You are not your profile 【翻译】你不是你的个人资料 To illustrate how this is playing out, think of Facebook and Snapchat . 【翻译】为说明这是如何操作的，想象脸书与Snapchat。 Facebook is an Information Age native. Along with other social networks of its generation, Facebook was built on a principle of the desktop era — accumulation. 【翻译】脸书是一个信息时代的产物。随着其他社交网络的产生，脸书是建立在桌面时代的原则-积累。 Accumulation manifests in a digital profile where my identity is the sum of all the information I've saved — text, photos, videos, web pages. (Evan Spiegel explored this first i