0604硅谷夜未眠：为什么科技达人痴迷睡眠技术顺理成章｜经济学人(11)

When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through. 堵塞
例：Dirt clogs the pores, causing blemishes.尘垢堵塞了毛孔，由此产生了瑕疵。
Sleepwalking into the future
But resist the temptation to dismiss all this as batty. Sleep-tracking is at exactly the stage that tness-tracking technology was at a decade ago. Now tness trackers (including the Apple Watch) are mainstream and nobody bats an eyelid when people share details of their morning runs on Facebook.
The same could easily happen with sleep-tech. A series of previous examples—including the use of email, the embrace of online shopping, hailing a car with an app, or renting a room in an unfamiliar city from a complete stranger—are a reminder that the seemingly crazy things that Silicon Valley types do today, everyone else may end up doing in a decade’s time. In this case, in their sleep.
梦游到未来
但也不要急于将这一切贬为发神经。睡眠追踪正处于健康追踪技术十年前所处的阶段。如今,包括Apple Watch在内的健康追踪器已经成为主流，没有人会对别人在Facebook上晒的晨跑记录大惊小怪。同样的情况也很容易发生在睡眠技术.上。使用电子邮件、拥抱网上购物、用手机应用叫车，或者从一个素不相识的人那里租下陌生城市里的一个房间....以往一连串的例子提醒人们，硅谷人今天的所作所为看似荒唐，但其他人在十年后可能都会步他们的后尘。而且这次还是闭着眼做的。