But I don't really tell stories in the usual way,

我覺得自己是一個說故事的人，

in the sense that I don't usually tell my own stories.

但我說故事的方式和一般人不同，

Instead, I'm really interested in building tools that allow

我也不常講自己的故事。

large numbers of other people to tell their stories,

我比較常做的是設計一些工具，

people all around the world.

讓世界上的其他許多人

I do this because I think that people actually have a lot in common.

都可以講述自己的故事。

I think people are very similar,

我會這麼做是因為我覺得人們有許多共同點，

but I also think that we have trouble seeing that.

我覺得大部分的人都很相像，

You know, as I look around the world I see a lot of gaps,

只是大家都沒有發覺而已。

and I think we all see a lot of gaps.

當我觀察了世界上的各種人後，發現了一些差異，

And we define ourselves by our gaps.

我相信大家都看得出來這些差異，

There's language gaps,

我們也用這些差異來區別彼此，

there's ethnicity and racial gaps, there's age gaps,

像是語言差異、

there's gender gaps, there's sexuality gaps,

種族及人種差異、年齡差異、

there's wealth and money gaps, there's education gaps,

性別差異、性向差異、

there's also religious gaps.

財富差異、教育程度差異，

You know, we have all these gaps and I think we like our gaps

當然還有宗教差異。

because they make us feel like we identify with something,

就算我們之間存在了這麼多的差異，我們還是喜歡這些差異，

some smaller community.

因為這些差異會讓我們產生認同感，

But I think that actually, despite our gaps,

形成各個小團體。

we really have a lot in common.

但除了這些差異之外，

And I think one thing we have in common is a very deep need

我真的覺得我們有許多共同點，

to express ourselves.

其中一個共同點，就是我們對於表達自己的意見，

I think this is a very old human desire. It's nothing new.

都有很深的渴望。

But the thing about self-expression

我認為這是一種存在已久的人類渴望，不是什麼新聞，

is that there's traditionally been this imbalance

但一談到自我表達這件事，

between the desire that we have to express ourselves

通常我們就會想到一個不對等的狀況，

and the number of sympathetic friends

那就是我們對於表達自己意見的渴望，

who are willing to stand around and listen.

其渴求程度遠遠大於願意聆聽

(Laughter)

我們意見的朋友人數。

This, also, is nothing new.

(笑聲)

Since the dawn of human history, we've tried to rectify this imbalance

這也不是什麼新聞了。

by making art, writing poems, singing songs,

自有人類歷史以來，人類總試圖藉由藝術創造、

scripting editorials and sending them in to a newspaper,

寫詩、唱歌、寫些社論投稿到報社、

gossiping with friends. This is nothing new.

或和朋友們八卦一番，來改善這種不對等的狀況，

What's new is that in the last several years

這也不是什麼新聞。

a lot of these very traditional physical human activities,

真正的新聞是在過去幾年，

these acts of self-expression, have been moving onto the Internet.

這些傳統人類用來抒發自我的活動，

And as that's happened, people have been leaving behind footprints,

全都移到網路上去了。

footprints that tell stories of their moments of self-expression.

在網路發達後，人們開始在網路上留下自己的足跡，

And so what I do is, I write computer programs

也就是留下可以表達自我的各種故事。

that study very large sets of these footprints,

而我所做的，就是撰寫一些電腦程式，

and then try to draw conclusions about the people who left them --

蒐集大量的故事文章，

what they feel, what they think,

然後試圖在這些文章背後找出某些蛛絲馬跡，

what's different in the world today than usual,

我想知道這些人的感受、想法，

these sorts of questions.

我也想知道現在的世界和以往究竟有何不同，

One project that explores these ideas,

我想知道這類問題的答案。

which was made about a year ago,

有一個專案就是在探討這些問題，

is a piece called We Feel Fine.

我們在一年以前開啟了這個專案，

This is a piece that every two or three minutes

「我們覺得很好」專案。

scans the world's newly-posted blog entries

這個程式會每隔二到三分鐘，

for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" or "I am feeling."

上網蒐尋最新發佈的部落格文章，

And when it finds one of those phrases,

我們設定的關鍵字是「我覺得...」或「我感到...」，

it grabs the sentence up to the period,

只要找到這種關鍵字，

and then automatically tries to deduce the age, gender

程式就會把那句話擷取下來，

and geographical location of the person that wrote that sentence.

然後開始自動分析發表文章的人，看他的年齡、

Then, knowing the geographical location and the time,

性別和所在的城市為何。

we can also then figure out the weather

一旦知道作者的城市和發表文章的時間，

when that person wrote the sentence.

我們就可以相對應地找出

All of this information is saved in a database

作者在寫這個句子時的天氣如何。

that collects about 20,000 feelings a day.

我們把所有的資訊都儲存在資料庫裡，

It's been running for about a year and a half.

每天約可收集到二萬筆各種人們的感覺資訊。

It's reached about seven-and-a-half million human feelings now.

這個專案已經進行了一年半左右，

And I'll show you a glimpse

蒐集到約750萬則人們的感覺，

of how this information is then visualized. So this is We Feel Fine.

我來讓各位看看

What you see here is a madly swarming mass of particles,

這些資訊畫成圖表的樣子，這就是「我們覺得很好」，

each of which represents a single human feeling

各位所看到的是一大群小點點，

that was stated in the last few hours.

每一個點就代表某個人的感覺，

The color of each particle corresponds to the type of feeling inside --

這是我們在前幾個小時所蒐集到的感覺。

so that happy, positive feelings are brightly colored.

點點的顏色就代表感覺的類型，

And sad, negative feelings are darkly colored.

像是快樂、正面的感覺就用明亮的色彩，

The diameter of each dot

悲傷、負面的感覺就用灰暗的顏色。

represents the length of the sentence inside,

每一個小點的直徑

so that the large dots contain large sentences,

就代表那個句子的長度，

and the small dots contain small sentences.

句子愈長，圓點就愈大，

Any dot can be clicked and expanded. And we see here,

小的點點就表示句子很短。

"I would just feel so much better

每個小點都能用滑鼠點開，看到句子內容，像是：

if I could curl up in his arms right now and feel his affection for me

「如果我能踡進他的臂彎，

in the embrace of his body and the tenderness of his lips."

讓他擁抱我，我就能感受到他的愛意包圍著我，

So it gets pretty hot and steamy sometimes

感受到他溫柔的唇，我就會覺得好過一點。」

in the world of human emotions.

有時人類的情緒

And all of these are stated by people:

是可以很火熱也很煽情的，

"I know that objectively it really doesn't mean much,

這些全都是網路上的人所寫的文字：

but after spending so many years as a small fish in a big pond,

「我知道客觀上來說這不算什麼，

it's nice to feel bigger again."

但在一個大池塘裡當了那麼多年的小魚之後，

The dots exhibit human qualities. They kind of have their own physics,

我很高興能覺得自己又變成了一條大魚。」

and they swarm wildly around, kind of exploring the world of life.

這些小點把每個人的情緒都表露出來，像是有自己的個性一般，

And then they also exhibit curiosity.

成為一個又一個的群體，又有點像是真實人生的縮影。

You can see a few of them are swarming around the cursor right now.

這些小點也呈現出某種趣味，

You can see some other ones

有些聚集在這個游標附近，

are swarming around the bottom left corner of the screen

有一些則聚集在

around six words. Those six words represent the six movements

螢幕左下角

of We Feel Fine. We're currently seeing Madness.

那六個字附近。那六個字代表了「我們覺得很好」

There's also Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics and Mounds.

的六種面向，我們現在看到的是狂亂，

And I'll walk you through a few of those now.

還有喃喃自語、剪輯、分類、數據和山丘圖。

Murmurs causes all of the feelings to fly to the ceiling.

接下來我會一一介紹。

And then, one by one, in reverse chronological order,

喃喃自語會把每個人的感覺從螢幕上方放下來，

they excuse themselves, entering the scrolling list of feelings.

由新到舊，一個一個呈現出來，

"I feel a bit better now."

每一個都排列在捲軸式清單裡，

(Laughter)

「我覺得好過多了。」

"I feel confused and unsure of what the hell I want to do."

(笑聲)

"I feel gypped out of something awesome here."

「我覺得很困惑，完全不知道自己要做什麼。」

"I feel so free; I feel so good."

「我覺得自己被這些假象給騙了！」

"I feel like I'm in this fog of depression that I can't get out of."

「我覺得很自由、很好！」

And you can click any of these to go out and visit the blog

「我覺得自己被一片愁雲慘霧所籠罩，完全走不出去。」

from which it was collected. And in that way,

你只要點開這些小點點，就可以連回這些語句

you can connect with the authors of these statements

原先所在的部落格，

if you feel some degree of empathy.

你可以和這些語句的作者聯絡，

The next movement is called Montage.

表達你的同情。

Montage causes all of the feelings that contain photographs

下一個面向是剪輯，

to become extracted and display themselves in a grid.

也就是把附有照片的感覺剪輯下來，

This grid is then said to represent the picture of the world's feelings

一格一格地呈現出來。

in the last few hours, if you will.

我們可以把這些一格一格的照片視為過去幾個小時

Each of these can be clicked and we can blow it up.

這個世界的心情寫照，

We see, "I just feel like I'm not going to have fun

每一張照片都可以點開，

if it's not the both of us." That was from someone in Michigan.

你會看到：「我覺得如果不是和你在一起，

We see, "I feel like I have been at a computer all day."

世界就不會那麼有趣。」這是密西根某個人寫的，

(Laughter)

還有，「我覺得自己好像已經打了一整天的電腦。」

These are automatically constructed using the found objects:

(笑聲)

"I think I feel a little full."

這些都是用我們找到的句子自動剪輯下來的，

The next movement is called mobs.

「我覺得有點飽。」

Mobs provides different statistical breakdowns

下一個面向叫做分類，

of the population of the world's feelings in the last few hours.

我們將過去幾個小時內所蒐集到的感覺句子，

We see that "better" is the most frequent feeling right now,

以統計分析的方式加以分類，

followed by "good," "bad," "guilty," "right," "down," "sick" and so on.

我們會看到「好多了」是目前出現頻率最高的感覺，

We can also get a gender breakdown.

接下來是很好、糟糕、罪惡感、正確、沮喪及不舒服等。

And we see that women are slightly more prolific

我們還可以依性別分類，

talking about their emotions in the last few hours than men.

我們會發現，女性談論情感的頻率，

We can do an age breakdown, which gives us a histogram

在過去這幾個小時裡是比男性稍高一些。

of the world's emotional distribution by age.

我們還可以依年齡分類，我們可以看到這個長條圖，

We see people in their twenties are the most prolific,

呈現出全世界依年齡分類的情緒發洩分佈狀況。

followed by teenagers, and then people in their thirties,

我們發現，二十多歲的年輕人頻率最高，

and it dies out very quickly from there.

接下來是青少年，然後是三十多歲的人，

In weather, the feelings assume the physical characteristics

再後面的人就幾乎沒有發表什麼情緒。

of the weather that they represent,

我們會以各種天氣的特徵

so that the ones collected on a sunny day

來代表各種不同的感覺，

swirl around as if they're part of the sun.

像是旋轉的渦旋就代表了充滿陽光的日子，

The cloudy ones float along as if they're on a breeze.

因為那渦旋就像是陽光的一部分；

The rainy ones fall down as if they're in a rainstorm,

漂浮在微風裡的粒子，就代表了陰天；

and the snowy ones kind of flutter to the ground.

像暴風雨般落下的代表雨天；

Finally, location causes the feelings to move to their positions

在地上飄動的就代表下雪天。

on a world map showing the geographical distribution of feelings.

最後，我們會把從世界各地蒐集而來的感覺語句，

Metrics provides more numerical views on the data.

依其地點放回到世界地圖上，以看出地理上的分佈狀況。

We see that the world is feeling "used"

數據則是以將資料以數據方式呈現，

at 3.3 times the normal level right now.

可以看到，現在網路上，覺得「被利用了」

(Laughter)

的人數是平常的3.3倍；

They're feeling "warm" at 2.9 times the normal level, and so on.

(笑聲)

Other views are also available.

覺得「很溫暖」的則是平常的2.9倍，

Here are gender, age, weather, location.

還有其他的數據，

The final movement is called Mounds.

像是性別、年齡、天氣和地理位置等。

It's a bit different from the others.

最後一個面向稱為山丘圖，

Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs

和前面幾個稍微有點不一樣，

which kind of jiggle.

山丘圖是把整個資料庫描繪成一個很大的膠狀團塊，

And if I hold down my cursor, they do a little dance.

還會抖動個不停，

We see "better" is the most frequent feeling, followed by "bad."

如果我把滑鼠往下滑，他們就會像跳舞一樣抖動。

And then if I go over here, the list begins to scroll,

我們發現「好多了」是目前出現頻率最高的，後面接著的是「糟糕」，

and there are actually thousands of feelings that have been collected.

如果我往後移，整個清單就會開始轉動，

You can see the little pink cursor moving along,

你會看到我們蒐集到數以千計的感覺。

representing our position.

你可以看到這個小小的粉紅色游標，

Here we see people that feel "slipping," "nauseous," "responsible."

代表我們現在所在的位置，

There's also a search capability,

像是有人覺得「變糟了」、「厭惡」、「負責任的」。

if you're interested in finding out about a certain population.

裡面還有搜尋功能，

For instance, you could find women who feel "addicted"

可以讓你找到某一個特定的族群，

in their 20s when it was cloudy in Bangladesh.

舉例來說，你可以搜尋在孟加拉的陰天時，

(Laughter)

有「沈迷」感的二十歲女性。

But I'll spare you that.

(笑聲)

So here are some of my favorite montages that have been collected:

這些就留給你們自己去發掘吧...

"I feel so much of my dad alive in me that there isn't even room for me."

接下來我要給各位看看我最喜歡的幾張剪輯：

"I feel very lonely."

「我覺得父親還活在我心裡，佔據了我所有的心念。」

"I need to be in some backwoods redneck town

「我覺得很孤單。」

so that I can feel beautiful."

「我覺得自己在偏遠農民的眼中，

"I feel invisible to you."

才算漂亮。」

"I wouldn't hide it if society didn't make me feel like I needed to."

「我覺得你眼裡沒有我。」

"I feel in love with Carolyn." "I feel so naughty."

「我不會遮掩，除非你們逼我這樣做。」

"I feel these weirdoes are actually an asset to college life."

「我覺得我愛上了卡洛琳。」「我是個頑皮鬼。」

(Laughter)

「我覺得這些怪胎真是大學校園裡的寶。」

"I love how I feel today."

(笑聲)

So as you can see, We Feel Fine uses a technique

「我喜歡今天的感覺。」

that I call "passive observation."

各位可以看到，「我們覺得很好」所運用的技術，

What I mean by that is that it passively observes people

是我稱之為「被動觀察」的技術，

as they live their lives. It scans the world's blogs

也就是我們從旁被動地觀察人群，

and looks at what people are writing,

看他們是怎麼過活的。我們掃視全世界的部落格，

and these people don't know they're being watched or interviewed.

看看每個人在寫些什麼，

And because of that,

但這些部落格主並不知道有人在觀察他們，

you end up getting very honest, candid, sincere responses

也因為這樣，

that are often very moving.

我們得到的是最真誠、最坦白、最真摯的反應，

And this is a technique that I usually prefer in my work

永遠都最感人。

because people don't know they're being interviewed.

這是我最喜歡的技術，

They're just living life, and they end up just acting like that.

因為大家並不知道自己是受訪的對象，

Another technique is directly questioning people.

他們的日子還是照過，所以才會有這些反應。

And this is a technique that I explored in a different project,

另外一個技術是直接詢問人們的感覺，

the Yahoo! Time Capsule,

這個技術是我在另一個專案上開發出來的技術，

which was designed to take a fingerprint of the world in 2006.

也就是「Yahoo!時空膠囊」，

It was divided into ten very simple themes --

原先是為了蒐集2006年全世界每個人的手印而設計，

love, anger, sadness and so on --

其中有十個非常簡單的主題，

each of which contained a single, very open-ended question

像是愛、憤怒、悲傷等等，

put to the world: What do you love? What makes you angry?

我們為每一個主題設計了一個開放式的問題，

What makes you sad? What do you believe in? And so on.

我們會問：你愛什麼？你為什麼生氣？

The time capsule was available for one month online,

你為什麼悲傷？你信仰什麼？這一類的。

translated into 10 languages, and this is what it looked like.

那時我們線上開放「時空膠囊」為期一個月，

It's a spinning globe,

翻成十國語言，這就是「時空膠囊」，

the surface of which is entirely composed of the pictures

像個旋轉的球體，

and words and drawings of people

球體的表面覆滿了

that submitted to the time capsule.

大家上傳到「時空膠囊」

The ten themes radiate out and orbit the time capsule.

的照片、文字和插圖，

You can sift through this data and see what people have submitted.

那十個主題發射出光芒，繞行這個「時空膠囊」。

This is in response to, What's beautiful? "Miss World."

你可以點選這些資料，看大家都上傳了什麼，

There are two modes to the time capsule.

像是針對「什麼最美？」這個問題，就有人上傳「環球小姐」。

There's One World, which presents the spinning globe,

「時空膠囊」有二個模式，

and Many Voices, which splits the data out into film strips

現在這個轉動的是一個模式，稱為「一個世界」，

and lets you sift through them one by one.

另一個模式是「不同聲音」，以底片的方式呈現，

So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event,

你可以一個一個點選這些影片。

which was held in the desert outside Albuquerque in New Mexico

這個專案還舉辦了一個令人讚歎的活動，

at the Jemez Pueblo, where for three consecutive nights,

活動地點選在新墨西哥州的黑梅茲．帕布羅市郊的沙漠裡，

the contents of the capsule were projected onto the sides

一連舉辦了三天，

of the ancient Red Rock Canyon walls,

「時空膠囊」的內容全被投射在

which stand about 200 feet tall. It was really incredible.

紅岩峽谷的古老岩石上，

And we also projected the contents of the time capsule

那塊岩石約有60公尺高，真的很壯觀！

as binary code using a 35-watt laser into outer space.

我們還把「時空膠囊」裡的內容，

You can see the orange line leaving the desert floor

轉成二進位制，以35瓦的雷射光向太空投射，

at about a 45 degree angle there. This was amazing

你可以看到有一道橘色的光束從沙漠中

because the first night I looked at all this information

以45度角向天空發射，那真的很棒！

and really started seeing the gaps that I talked about earlier --

就在我第一晚在那裡看這些內容時，

the differences in age, gender and wealth and so on.

真的就看到了我先前所談的各項人類差異，