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                                              Time's Person of the Year: You

          The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.

         To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s.

            But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.（www.kaobo.net）

          The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

         And we are so ready for it. We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.

            And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.

            America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.

             Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

                The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.

                  Sure, it's a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

              But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.

关键字：《时代》 年度人物 网民

美国《时代》周刊16日评选出2006年度人物，不是具体的某个人，而是正在上网的“你”。这家杂志说，正是千千万万个网民浏览网站，创建博客、视频共享网站和交友网站，才使网络信息爆炸性增长，推动传媒进入大众唱主角的时代。

网民被选为2006年度影响力最大的人

没错，就是“你”。美国《时代》周刊16日评选出2006年度人物，不是具体的某个人，而是正在上网的“你”。这家杂志说，正是千千万万个网民浏览网站，创建博客、视频共享网站和交友网站，才使网络信息爆炸性增长，推动传媒进入大众唱主角的时代。一句话，《时代》周刊认为，每个使用互联网的网民才是2006年度影响力最大的人。

“业余记者”胜记者

《时代》周刊编辑列夫·格罗斯曼说，普通网民当选2006年度人物的理由是：把握了媒体全球化的脉搏；推动传媒进入公众个体唱主角的时代；无偿工作，而且在专业媒体从业者自己的老本行上打败了他们。

这期《时代》杂志封面图案是一面镜子(左图)。对此，《时代》周刊编辑理查德·施滕格尔解释说：“你们，而非我们，改变了信息时代，镜子恰如其分地反映了这一点。”

《时代》周刊从1927年以来每年评选年度人物，选择标准是：“一个人或一些人，对于新闻媒体和我们的生活影响最大，不管这种影响是好是坏；能够代表本年度最重要的新闻事件，无论这种事件是好是坏。”

今年的评选中，“你”击败的候选人中不乏名人，如伊朗总统马哈茂德·艾哈迈迪－内贾德和领导国会跨党派“伊拉克研究小组”的美国前国务卿詹姆斯·贝克等。

个人网民影响大

格罗斯曼说，虽然2006年也有许多新闻事件主角引人关注，但换个角度，却可以看到事态发展的另一面，那就是互联网网民之间前所未有的交流与合作。

格罗斯曼列举的例子中，有维基百科网站Wikipedia，视频共享网站YouTube以及个人博客网站“我的空间”（MySpace）。这些网站的共同点是浏览者可以自行上传数据、修改或更新网页内容。

个人对传媒影响的加大还有其他一些体现。美国微软公司面临来自开放源代码操作系统Linux的强劲挑战，更有甚者，路透社已将博客条目与常规新闻共同播出。

“许多人无偿相互帮助，这不但改变了世界，也改变了世界得以改变的方式，”格罗斯曼说。