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?Unit 1 The scope of the Web today is hard to fathom. 今天网络的范围是难以估计的。 The total number of Web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion. 网页总的数量超过了6000亿，包括那些被动态创造的通过链接可得到的请求及文档文件。 Thats 100 pages per person alive. 那就是说人均浏览量是100页。 How could we create so much, so fast, so well? 我们如何能又多，又快，又好地创造出来呢？ In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people, or one-sixth of the worlds population. 在不到4000天的时间里，我们已经编码了5000亿个我们收集的故事版本，并让他们呈现在10亿人的面前，或者说世界六分之一人口面前。 That remarkable achievement was not in anyones 10-year plan. 那些伟大的成就并不在任何人的10年计划之内。 The accretion of tiny marvels can numb us to the arrival of the stupendous. 从微小的奇迹慢慢增长达到令人惊讶的地步可能会让我们麻木。 Today, at any Net terminal, you can get: 今天，在任何网络终端，你能得到： an amazing variety of music and video, an evolving encyclopedia, weather forecasts, help wanted ads, satellite images of any place on Earth, up-to-the-minute news from around the globe, tax forms, TV guides, road maps with driving directions, real-time stock quotes, telephone numbers, real estate listings with virtual walk-throughs, pictures of just about anything, sports scores, places to buy almost anything, records of political contributions, library catalogs, appliance manuals, live traffic reports, archives to major newspapers-all wrapped up in an interactive index that really works. 令人惊讶的种类繁多的音乐和视频，不断更新的百科全书，天气预报，求助广告，地球上任何地方的卫星图片，世界最新新闻，纳税申报表格，电视导航，行车时的导航仪，实时股票报价，电话号码，实际的房地产目录，几乎所有东西的图片，体育赛事比分，购买几乎所有东西的地点，政治贡献的记录，图书馆目录，器械手册，直播的交通报道，主要报纸的档案，所有的档案都已经被装入到真正起作用的交互式索引下。 This view is spookily godlike. 这个观点如神一样奇怪。 You can switch your gaze of a spot in the world from map to satellite to 3-D just by clicking. 通过点击，你可以把视线从地图上世界的某一地点转到通过卫星显示的3D形式。 Recall the past? Its there. 回忆起过去了吗？就在那儿。 Or listen to the daily complaints and travails of almost anyone who blogs (and doesnt everyone?). 或者听下几乎所有人在博客上发表的每天的报怨及辛劳（不是每个人