【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ess we lose contact with ourselves.我們有越來越多的 可以用來節(jié)省時間的設備， 但有時，時間似乎越來越少。 我們比以前更容易與 身處地球另一端的人們聯(lián)系， 但有時候，在那過程中， 我們與自己斷了線。and one of my biggest surprises as a traveler has been to find that often it39。s exactly the people who have most enabled us to get anywhere who are intent on going nowhere.作為一個旅行者， 讓我最為詫異的事情之一就是 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，時常，往往那些 最使我們能夠走向世界各地的人 卻最希望身居原處。in other words, precisely those beings who have created the technologies that override so many of the limits of old, are the ones wisest about the need for limits, even when it es to technology.換句話說，正是那些 創(chuàng)造了打破舊時的 限制人出游的科技的人們 才是最具智慧的個體， 他們理解限制的必須， 甚至在面對科技本身時，亦是如此。i once went to the google headquarters and i saw all the things many of you have heard about。 the indoor tree houses, the trampolines, workers at that time enjoying 20 percent of their paid time free so that they could just let their imaginations go wandering.有一次我造訪谷歌總部， 我見到了所有你們聽說過的事。 室內(nèi)樹屋，蹦床， 擁有 20% 屬于自己付費工時的員工， 允許他們的想象自由漫游。but what impressed me even more was that as i was waiting for my digital ., one googler was telling me about the program that he was about to start to teach the many, many googlers who practice yoga to bee trainers in it, and the other googler was telling me about the book that he was about to write on the inner search engine, and the ways in which science has empirically shown that sitting still, or meditation, can lead not just to better health or to clearer thinking, but even to emotional intelligence.但更讓我感到印象深刻的是， 當我正在等待我的數(shù)字身份證時， 有位谷歌員工告訴我一個項目， 說他正打算教許許多多的谷歌員工 來練習瑜伽，并成為訓練師， 而另外一個谷歌員工 向我闡述了一本他正想寫的書， 一本關于內(nèi)在尋索的書， 以及科學如何經(jīng)驗性地證明 打坐，或冥想 不僅能促進健康，明晰思維， 甚至也能增加情緒智慧。i have another friend in silicon valley who is really one of the most eloquent spokesmen for the latest technologies, and in fact was one of the founders of wired magazine, kevin kelly. and kevin wrote his last book on fresh technologies without a smartphone or a laptop or a tv in his home.我有另一個在硅谷工作的朋友， 他的確是當前最前沿科技的 最有說服力的代言人，事實上， 他是《連線》雜志的 創(chuàng)始人之一，凱文凱利。 凱文當時正在寫一本有關最新技術的書， 但他家里卻沒有智能手機， 筆記本電腦，或者電視.and like many in silicon valley, he tries really hard to observe what they call an inter sabbath, whereby for 24 or 48 hours every week they go pletely offline in order to gather the sense of direction and proportion they39。ll need when they go online again.如同許多住在硅谷的人們， 他非常努力地觀察 那個稱為互聯(lián)網(wǎng)安息日的東西， 在每個星期，有 24 或 48 小時， 他們會徹底地下線， 以尋求一點方向感， 用來重新調(diào)整，并汲取 他們重新上線時之所需。the one thing perhaps that technology hasn39。t always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology. and when you speak of the sabbath, look at the ten mandments there39。s only one word there for which the adjective holy is used, and that39。s the sabbath. i pick up the jewish holy book of the torah its longest chapter, it39。s on the sabbath.有件科技可能尚未給予我們的是 如何可以更聰明地使用科技。 談到休息日， 讓我們看看十戒吧， 其中只有一個字的形容詞涉及“神圣”， 而那就是安息日。 我拿起猶太圣典《托拉》， 它最長的章節(jié)，就是關于安息日。and we all know that it39。s really one of our greatest luxuries, the empty space. in many a piece of music, it39。s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. and i know i as a writer will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can plete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.我們都知道，這真是 我們所擁有的最大奢侈之一： 空。 在許多音樂作品中，停頓或靜默 賦予了這作品美麗形貌。 我知道，作為一個作家， 我時常會在頁面中留下空白， 讓讀者可以完整地 領會我的思維與句法， 以留給想象呼吸的空間。now, in the physical domain, of course, many people, if they have the resources, will try to get a place in the country, a second home. i39。ve never begun to have those resources, but i sometimes remember that any time i want, i can get a second home in time, if not in space, just by taking a day off.現(xiàn)在，在實際的領域中， 當然有很多人， 倘若他們稍微富余的話， 會試著在國內(nèi)擁有第二個家。 我從未有過那些資源， 但我有時記得 任何時候，若我想的話， 我可以給自己放一天假， 來適時地，獲得第二個家。and it39。s never easy because, of course, whenever i do i spend much of i