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.
很难想象没有数字搜索和互联网的生活会怎样。对于我以及任何其他人来说都是如此：更轻松地获取并核实相关事实与数据，已使专栏作家的生活彻底改观。取下图书馆书架上的书然后逐页翻查从来不是一种高效率的检索方法，即使有时这是一项有趣且增进知识的努力。但这种曾经需要泡在图书馆数小时（而且往往徒劳）的工作，现在通常只需点击几下鼠标就可以完成。
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