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  "I'm talking about the all the order in the natural world," Malcolm said:"And how perhaps it can emerge fast, through crystallization. Because complex animals can evolve their behavior rapidly. Changes can occur very quickly. Human beings are transforming the planet, and no body knows whether it's a dangerous development or not. So these behavioral processes can happen faster than we usually think evolution occurs. In ten thousand years human beings have gone from hunting to farming to cities to cyberspace. Behavior is screaming forward, and it might be nonadaptive. Nobody knows. Although personally, I think cyberspace means end of our species."

  "Yes? Why is that?"

  "Because it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said:"This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That's the effect of the mass media-it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London, there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. In a mass media world there's less of everything except top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species divesity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity-our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we are planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think of the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity."

  "And believe me, it'll be fast. If you map complex systems on a fitness landscape, you find the behavior can move so fast that fitness can drop precipitously. It doesn't require asteroids or disease or anything else. It's just behavior that suddenly emerges, and turns out to be fatal to the creatures that do it. My ideas is that dinosaurs-being complex creatures-might have undergone some of these behavioral changes. And that led to their extinction."

  "What? All of them?"

  "It just takes a few," Malcolm said:"Some dinosaurs roots in the swamps around the inland sea, changes the water circulations, and destroys the plant ecology that twenty other species depend on. Bang! They're gone. That causes still more dislocations. A predator dies off, and its prey grow unchecked. The ecosystem becomes unbalanced. More things go wrong. More species die. And suddenly it's over. It could have happened that way."

 

-----Ian Malcolm, The Lost World.

  I had never expected my windows would be down in such a lousy manner, failure trial in both "start from the last proper configuration" and "safe mode", even the "safe mode with prompt line" denied my desperate attempt in logging into the system. I don't quite capture the root cause of the failure but a possible installation of some gadget might have had the key registration code of the windows system altered and, directly or undirectly, shut the system down and would not have it back up again.

  It is the time I begin to ponder how the internet has been affecting our daily life. Without a computer, one'll be astonished to discover that he/she is already somehow quite afar from reading novels, literature, biographies and histories. We somehow GUESS that we are connected and closer than before because of the internet, and we care less on our relationships as "it is supposed to be good". We begin to admire the hilarious blog entries instead of the solemn topics on human beings and our existance. It is the blogs, the online articles, the multimedia, that have shifted our focus to the electronics instead of favouring the pleasant odor of ink and paper eminating from every single page we turn.

  It is also a good time to contemplate whether we've been thinking less than we had been in the past. Our visions have been crowded by forlongs of advertisements of various forms, we are merely smashed to fatigue by trying to update and equip ourselves with the latest technology, in a desperate fear of being left behind by the time tide. The waves of information simply ferries us forward with few buoyant folks even bother to consider whether we are on a proper track. Definitely we are becoming electronicalized, as the world evolves through timeline, but would we be able to retain any little piece of humane share within our soul, that is emotional, conservative, calm and purged?

  It is universally acknowledged that a man of a considerable amount of wealth must be in want of a wife, oh no, that's Jane's concept, but I do believe that our fates do root so deeply into the circle we are in and with, and the fact that building up connections with our peers would be the least stuff that I would hesitate doing given any chance.

  The result of the above redundant depiction and explaination, is, that we've gathered again this National holiday. I toiled and suffered summoning every member from the grave of work to the torrid, gleaming sphere of putting everything annoying away to enjoy an exhilarating refreshening of relationships, by crook or by hook. Yes we're happy to share our gossips, we share the sadness of losing our beloved teacher, we inquire one another on the sensitive and ambiguous topic of the "emotional development with Mr/Ms Mystery", and we make fun of one another with a tolerance that stretches up to the dome of the skyline. I do not hesitate in presenting all these in present tense since these slides of happy hours iterate themselves beneath my drapes of eyes, and are stitched rigorously to the most cherishing sector of my heart and soul despite the evanescent being of their actual form.

  Some grew pretty chubby, while others have not changed or even became slenderer than the image imprinted last time we met, but the content of the circle, the atomsphere of the group, the topics we've co-owned for nearly 10 years has never shown even a little bit sign of dwindling or shifting. Yolanda is promoted, Liyuanyuan has just joined the CQU as a teacher of English, congratulations to you two. Feng and Gou, hope you'll stride through the ordeal of the exam, and have your dream fullfilled eventually! Others who've not graduated, I wish you to be with the luck blessed by god himself in case any hurdles surface; those who'd become freaks of mah-jong, I know that you'll not be listening but I do regard seperating gamble from amusement is quite proper; Those who'd not been so lucky to attend the gathering, please hang a grin on your face because we've talked about you all, your deeds have already participated!

 

  如果你死了，你的墓志铭怎么写？

 

Tianya的答案是：

1.感谢政府为我解决了住房问题!

2.一居室,求合租,面议.
3.小事招魂,大事挖坟.
4.发布违规信息,永久封杀! byGCD
5.我觉得我还可以抢救一下!　　　　　
6.老子是被活埋的.丢!
7.广告位招租
8.提供鞭尸服务,一次100!
9.初从文,三年不中;后习武,校场发一矢,中鼓吏,逐之出;遂学医,有所成,自撰一良方,服之,卒.
10.基因重组中，请稍候……二十年
11.我生在中国,我葬在中国,祸不单行!　
12.单挑冥王哈迪斯中,征求组队!(网游篇)
13.牧师，谢谢复活.坐标××.××(网游篇)
14.当你看清这行字的时候：朋友，你踩到我了
15.老子终于不用怕鬼了
16.给爷笑一个,要不~~~~~爷给你笑一个!
17.神农氏的墓志铭:"我靠！这草有毒!!!!!"
18.这是我挖的最后一个坑（警告挖坑者）　　　　　　
19.摸骨算命　　　　　　
20.陪聊，提供夜间上门服务

 

  What is your answer then?