We have reached peak screen. Now revolution is in the air.

我們已經(jīng)達(dá)到“屏幕峰值”，變革即將發(fā)生

Smartphones were once the best thing to happen to the tech industry. In the 11 years since the iPhone made its debut, smartphones have subsumed just about every other gadget and altered（小改變） every business.

智能手機(jī)曾經(jīng)是科技行業(yè)的福音。在 iPhone 問世后的 11 年里，智能手機(jī)納入了幾乎所有的小設(shè)備，改變了各行各業(yè)。

But now that smartphones have achieved dominance, revolution is again in the air.

不過目前，智能手機(jī)已經(jīng)實(shí)現(xiàn)了統(tǒng)治地位，變革卻又一次發(fā)生在即。

At Google’s and Apple’s recent developer conferences, executives took the stage to show how much more irresistible they were making our phones. Then each company unveiled something else: software to help you use your phone a lot less.

在谷歌和蘋果最近的開發(fā)者大會(huì)上，高管們登臺(tái)發(fā)言，展示了他們是如何把我們的手機(jī)做得更加難以抗拒的。接著，每家公司又都推出了另一個(gè)東西：幫你大幅減少手機(jī)使用時(shí)長(zhǎng)的軟件。

There’s a reason for this seemingly contradictory engineering effort（不翻譯）, and it's what I call "Peak Screen".

這看似矛盾的工程設(shè)計(jì)背后，有著自己的原因。我將其稱為“屏幕峰值”。

For much of the last decade, a technology industry ruled by smartphones has pursued a singular goal of completely conquering our eyes. Tech has now captured pretty much all visual capacity. Americans spend three to four hours a day looking at their phones, and that's the minimum estimation.

在過去十年的大部分時(shí)間里，被智能手機(jī)統(tǒng)治的科技行業(yè)所追求的唯一目標(biāo)就是完全占據(jù)我們的注意力。科技如今已經(jīng)俘獲了我們的全部視覺。美國(guó)人每天花三到四個(gè)小時(shí)看手機(jī)，這還只是最保守的估計(jì)。

So tech giants are building the beginning of something new: a less insistently（持續(xù)不斷地） visual tech world, a digital landscape that relies on voice assistants, headphones, watches and other wearables to take some pressure off our eyes.

因此，科技巨頭正在建造新事物的開始：一個(gè)更少占用視覺的科技世界，一個(gè)數(shù)字未來，它依靠語(yǔ)音助手、耳機(jī)、手表和其它可佩戴裝置，為我們的眼睛減輕負(fù)擔(dān)。

We may simply（只是） end up adding new devices to our screen-addled lives, or it could change everything again. As I argued, in many ways screens have become too dominant in our lives. The sooner we find something else, the better.

我們最終可能只是把新設(shè)備加入了讓我們沉迷屏幕的生活里，或許，它可能會(huì)再次改變一切。正如我所論證的，屏幕已經(jīng)主導(dǎo)了我們生活的方方面面。我們?cè)皆缯业叫率挛?，就越好不過。

—————? 文章來源 / 紐約時(shí)報(bào)

重點(diǎn)詞匯

subsume/s?b?su?m/

v. 納入，歸入

gadget/?ɡ?d??t/

n. 小裝置，小器具，小設(shè)備

alter/???lt?r/

v. 改變，修改

dominance/?dɑ?m?n?ns/

n. 統(tǒng)治地位，支配權(quán)

e.g.

- the worldwide dominance of Hollywood

irresistible/??r??z?st?bl/

adj. 難以抗拒的

unveil/??n?ve?l/

v. 展示，推出

seemingly/?si?m??li/

adv. 貌似地，看上去地

e.g.

- a seemingly endless journey

capacity/k??p?s?ti/

n. 容量，能力

wearable/?wer?bl/

n. 可穿戴（計(jì)算機(jī)），可戴品

addle/??dl/

v. 使糊涂，使昏亂

in the air

即將發(fā)生，被人們感覺到

e.g.

- Spring is in the air.

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