It is hard to imagine life without digital search and the internet. This is as true for me as for anyone else: the greater ease of obtaining and checking relevant facts and data has transformed the life of the columnist. Pulling books from library shelves and turning their pages was never an efficient search technique, even if sometimes an entertaining and instructive one. But exercises that once required hours in a library, and were often unproductive, can now usually be accomplished with a few mouse clicks.
很難想象沒有數(shù)字搜索和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的生活會怎樣。對于我以及任何其他人來說都是如此：更輕松地獲取并核實(shí)相關(guān)事實(shí)與數(shù)據(jù)，已使專欄作家的生活徹底改觀。取下圖書館書架上的書然后逐頁翻查從來不是一種高效率的檢索方法，即使有時這是一項(xiàng)有趣且增進(jìn)知識的努力。但這種曾經(jīng)需要泡在圖書館數(shù)小時（而且往往徒勞）的工作，現(xiàn)在通常只需點(diǎn)擊幾下鼠標(biāo)就可以完成。