“增长黑客”
用英语怎么说？

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists. So-called “scientific forestry” was that century’s growth hacking. It made timber yields easier to count, predict and harvest, and meant owners no longer relied on skilled local foresters to manage forests. They were replaced with lower-skilled laborers following basic algorithmic instructions. Decades later when the first crop was felled, vast fortunes were made. It was a disaster so bad that a new word, Waldsterben, or “forest death,” was minted to describe the result. All the same species and age, the trees were flattened in storms and ravaged by insects and disease - even the survivors were spindly and weak. The first magnificent bounty had not been the beginning of endless riches, but a one-off harvesting of millennia of soil wealth built up by biodiversity and symbiosis.

互联网已经成为一种榨取性的、脆弱的单一文化。但我们可以利用从生态学家那里学到的经验来使其恢复活力。所谓的“科学林业”是那个世纪的增长黑客。它使木材产量更易于计算、预测和收获，也意味着所有者不再依赖熟练的本地林业员来管理森林。他们被遵循基本算法指令的低技能劳工所取代。几十年后，当第一批作物被砍伐时，创造了巨大的财富。这是一场如此严重的灾难，以至于人们创造了一个新词“Waldsterben”，即“森林死亡”，来形容其结果。所有树木的物种和年龄都相同，它们在风暴中被夷为平地，遭受昆虫和疾病的蹂躏--即使是幸存者也变得细长衰弱。第一次的丰厚收获并非无尽财富的开始，而是一次性地收割了由生物多样性和共生关系积累了数千年的土壤财富。