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.
很難想像沒有數字搜尋和網路的生活會怎樣。對於我以及任何其他人來說都是如此：更輕鬆地獲取並覈實相關事實與數據，已使專欄作家的生活徹底改觀。取下圖書館書架上的書然後逐頁翻查從來不是一種高效率的檢索方法，即使有時這是一項有趣且增進知識的努力。但這種曾經需要泡在圖書館數小時（而且往往徒勞）的工作，現在通常只需點擊幾下滑鼠就可以完成。
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