I rose before dawn in Mumbai recently to watch the city’s newspaper vendors get ready for their rounds. Scores of men were squatting under the arches near the historic railway station, sorting thousands of papers in some 20 languages into teetering metre-high stacks, for distribution by bicycle. The sellers commit each complex order to memory, not a computer algorithm in sight.
最近的一天，我在破曉前起牀，看著孟買的報商爲當日的送報工作做準備。幾十個男人蹲在具有歷史意義的火車站附近的拱門下，將大約20種文字的數千份報紙整理成許多一米來高、搖搖欲墜的小堆，以便用自行車送報。這些賣家將一筆筆複雜的訂單記在心裏，這裏沒有電腦演算法的任何蹤影。
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