As we wrap up 2005, we should be well on the way to digital nirvana, everyone zooming down the infobahn consuming (and paying for) vast quantities of digital content. We should be getting full measure from our broadband connections—always connected, always in touch, always consuming. Yet somehow potholes keep emerging on that infobahn. In the past few months alone, high-profile columns and incidents have revealed a couple of deep ruts. Bill Howard discusses one such pothole in his July 2005 PC Magazine column, entitled "The Infotainment Bubble." (If that last title word doesn't send slight chills down your spine, you must have somehow skirted the dotcom bubble unscathed.) Howard's thrust is that people "need time to get used to how much they'll spend for entertainment and communication that didn't exist ten years ago"—but he also asserts that resistance sets in when those monthly bills reach a certain point.
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机译：随着2005年的结束，我们应该在迈向数字必杀技的道路上走得很好，每个人都在缩小信息高速公路，以消费（并支付）大量的数字内容。我们应该从宽带连接中获得全面的评估-始终保持连接，始终保持联系，始终消耗精力。然而，在这个信息高速公路上，不知何故坑洞不断出现。仅在过去的几个月中，备受瞩目的专栏和事件就揭示了一些深刻的争议。比尔·霍华德（Bill Howard）在2005年7月的《 PC Magazine》专栏中题为“信息娱乐泡沫”的文章中讨论了一个类似的问题。 （如果最后一个标题词不会使您的脊柱发凉，则必须以某种方式毫不掩饰地绕过网络泡沫。）霍华德的主旨是人们“需要时间来适应他们将花费多少钱用于娱乐和交流，十年前就不存在”，但他还断言，当这些月度账单达到一定水平时，就会出现阻力。
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