Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, wrote, "The net is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention."

《浅薄：互联网如何毒化了我们的大脑》一书的作者尼古拉斯·卡尔写道：“网络被设计成一个中断系统，一台用来分散注意力的机器。”

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The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation, accustomed to an industrial society.

然而，最大的差距是熟悉个人电脑和互联网的网络一代和习惯于工业社会的老一辈之间的差距。

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Today's vote represents the first time the principle of net neutrality - where all Internet content is treated equally - has been formally ratified in the US.

今天的投票是第一次展现出了网络中立性的原则——即所有的互联网信息内容应该被公平对待——在美国被正式立法规范了。

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And a big wireless carrier, AT&T,calls extending the net neutrality policy "a risky experiment" with American investment in high-speed Internet.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Net neutrality is the idea that everything on the Internet should be treated equally.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The agency could seek new powers to regulate Internet service and enforce net neutrality.

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The company noted that consumer wireline revenue was up 4.1%, with 144, 000 FiOS Internet net adds to 5.4 million, and 134, 000 FiOS video net adds, to 4.7 million.

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Verizon added 144, 000 net new FiOS Internet connections and 134, 000 net new FiOS Video connections in fourth-quarter 2012.

ENGADGET: Verizon adds 'record-high' 2.1 million subscribers in Q4 2012, but still makes a loss

Verizon added 134, 000 net new FiOS Internet connections and 120, 000 net new FiOS Video connections in second-quarter 2012.

ENGADGET: Verizon issues Q2 earnings, touts $15.8 billion service revenues in Wireless