Name: 【TED】詹姆斯-蘇洛維茨基：網絡人群的力量與危險（James Surowiecki: The power and danger of online crowds）。 (【TED】James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds (James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:25:44.000Z
Duration: 18 min 41 s

This was in an area called Wellawatta, a prime residential area in Colombo.

我們那時是在可倫坡某個叫做委拉哇塔的住宅區裡，

that ran between my friend's house and the beach.

The tracks are elevated about eight feet from the waterline normally,

那條鐵軌就在我朋友的家和海邊之間，

鐵軌的高度一般是在海平面上2.5公尺高，

to a level three or four feet below normal.

所以海平面也降到比平常還低個一公尺左右。

There were fish caught in rock pools left behind by the receding water.

Some children jumped down and ran to the rock pools with bags.

有些小魚被困在海水退去後的礁石水窪裡，

孩子們便都跳進水裡，帶著袋子跑到水窪旁，

No one realized that this was a very bad idea.

The people on the tracks just continued to watch them.

I turned around to check on my friend's house.

大家都只是站在鐵軌上看著他們抓魚，

Before I could turn around, everyone on the tracks was screaming and running.

接著就聽到有人在鐵軌上大叫，

The water had started coming back. It was foaming over the reef.

我還來不及回頭看，站在鐵軌上的人全都尖叫起來，而且開始往回跑，

The children managed to run back onto the tracks.

海水開始回漲上來，淹沒了礁石。

No one was lost there. But the water continued to climb.

In about two minutes, it had reached the level of the railroad tracks

沒人落在後頭。但海水還是持續上漲，

and was coming over it. We had run about 100 meters by this time.

大約二分鐘之後，海水幾乎就要上升到和鐵軌一樣高了，

快要淹沒鐵軌了！這次我們往回跑了100公尺，

I saw an old man standing at his gate, knee-deep in water, refusing to move.

He said he'd lived his whole life there by the beach,

我看到一個老人站在自己的門前，膝蓋都泡在水裡了，但他不願逃走，

and that he would rather die there than run.

他說他這輩子都在這個海邊渡過，

A boy broke away from his mother to run back into his house

to get his dog, who was apparently afraid.

有個男孩掙脫了媽媽的手，跑回屋裡，

An old lady, crying, was carried out of her house and up the road by her son.

去救他的狗，那隻狗完全嚇呆了。

The slum built on the railroad reservation

有個哭泣的老婦人，被她的兒子從房子裡揹了出來。

between the sea and the railroad tracks was completely swept away.

那個在鐵路保留區內的貧民窟，

Since this was a high-risk location, the police had warned the residents,

原來是在鐵軌與海灘之間，現在全被沖走了。

and no one was there when the water rose.

因為這裡是高危險區域，警察早就警告過這裡的居民，

But they had not had any time to evacuate any belongings.

所以當海嘯來的時候，這裡已經沒人了。

For hours afterwards, the sea was strewn with bits of wood for miles around --

但他們還是來不及帶走自己的物品。

all of this was from the houses in the slum.

過了幾個鐘頭之後，海水退去，留下了遍地斷裂的木頭，

When the waters subsided, it was as if it had never existed.

海水退去之後，就像從沒發生過海嘯一樣。

unless you've been reading lots and lots of news reports --

或許你很難相信海嘯曾在此肆虐，

but in many places, after the tsunami, villagers were still terrified.

When what was a tranquil sea swallows up people, homes

但在海嘯之後，大部分的村民都還是驚惶失措。

and long-tail boats -- mercilessly, without warning --

看著曾經風平浪靜的海洋把人們、房屋、

and no one can tell you anything reliable about whether another one is coming,

長尾船等全都無情地吞噬，沒有任何警訊，

I'm not sure you'd want to calm down either.

沒人知道是否還有下一波海嘯要來，

One of the scariest things about the tsunami

我也不確定大家是否已經恢復平靜。

that I've not seen mentioned is the complete lack of information.

This may seem minor, but it is terrifying to hear rumor after rumor

after rumor that another tidal wave, bigger than the last,

這或許是小事一椿，但最可怕的是聽到不同的謠言，

will be coming at exactly 1 p.m., or perhaps tonight, or perhaps ...

有人說又有另一波海嘯要來了，比上一個還要大，

You don't even know if it is safe to go back down to the water,

會在下午一點來襲，或是今天晚上，或是...

你無法判斷是不是可以回到海邊

We think that Phi Phi hospital was destroyed.

We think this boat is going to Phuket hospital,

but if it's too dangerous to land at its pier,

then perhaps it will go to Krabi instead, which is more protected.

We don't think another wave is coming right away.

就要轉去喀拉比醫院，那裡比較安全。

我們覺得下一波海嘯不會那麼快就來，

I was tucked into the corner furthest away from the television,

but I strained to listen for information.

They reported that there was an 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra,

電視上說蘇門答臘發生了8.5級的強震，

Having this news was comforting in some small way

to understand what had just happened to us.

聽到這則新聞讓我們稍微放下心了，

However, the report focused on what had already occurred

and offered no information on what to expect now.

但是，電視新聞一直在報導發生過的災情，

In general, everything was merely hearsay and rumor,

卻沒有告訴我們接下來會發生什麼事。

and not a single person I spoke to for over 36 hours

大家都只是道聽塗說，胡亂傳播謠言，

在接下來的36個小時裡，和我說過話的人裡面，

Those were two accounts of the Asian tsunami from two Internet blogs

that essentially sprang up after it occurred.

I'm now going to show you two video segments from the tsunami

我要播放二支有關海嘯的影片，

I should warn you, they're pretty powerful.

One from Thailand, and the second one from Phuket as well.

我先警告各位，影片內容很震撼，

第一支是在泰國拍攝，第二支則是在普吉島拍攝。

Voice 1: It's coming in. It's coming again.

Voice 1: It's coming again. Voice 2: New wave?

James Surowiecki: Phew. Those were both on this site: waveofdestruction.org.

In the world of blogs, there's going to be before the tsunami and after the tsunami,

詹姆士：呼...這二支影片都放在這個網站：Waveofdestruction.org

because one of the things that happened in the wake of the tsunami was that,

在部落格的世界裡，海嘯之前和海嘯之後有很清楚的分野，

although initially -- that is, in that first day --

因為在海嘯發生之後，有一件事值得討論，

there was actually a kind of dearth of live reporting, there was a dearth of live video

雖然一開始，在海嘯發生後的第一天，

現場報導的新聞資訊顯然不足，也缺乏可以播放的影片，

他們認為部落客讓大家失望了。

within a few days, the outpouring of information was immense,

後來事情卻有了完全不一樣的發展，

and we got a complete and powerful picture of what had happened

幾天之內，各種資訊排山倒海而來，

in a way that we never had been able to get before.

我們取得了完整且令人震撼的報導，

And what you had was a group of essentially unorganized, unconnected

那是我們以前完全無法想像到的境界。

writers, video bloggers, etc., who were able to come up with

這些人基本上都是沒有組織、互不相識的作家、

a collective portrait of a disaster that gave us a much better sense

或是部落格攝影師這一類的，他們共同描繪出

of what it was like to actually be there than the mainstream media could give us.

整個災難的景象，讓我們知道當地發生了什麼事，

And so in some ways the tsunami can be seen as a sort of seminal moment,

遠比主流媒體的報導還要詳盡。

a moment in which the blogosphere came, to a certain degree, of age.

因此，或許我們可以把這次的海嘯視為一個轉捩點，

Now, I'm going to move now from this kind of --

讓我們的部落格文化得以發展，以臻成熟。

【TED】詹姆斯-蘇洛維茨基：網絡人群的力量與危險（James Surowiecki: The power and danger of online crowds）。 (【TED】James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds (James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds))

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