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,我在破晓前起床,看着孟买的报商为当日的送报工作做准备。几十个男人蹲在具有历史意义的火车站附近的拱门下,将大约20种文字的数千份报纸整理成许多一米来高、摇摇欲坠的小堆,以便用自行车送报。这些卖家将一笔笔复杂的订单记在心里,这里没有计算机算法的任何踪影。
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