An alternative, Hawkins-like approach to economic development would take massive amounts of data about the world and ask what is likely to succeed next in a country or a city at a given point in time, given what is already present and in light of the experience there and everywhere else. It would be like Amazon’s recommendation system, proposing books you may like based on your and everybody else’s experience.
霍金斯式的经济发展替代方针将利用大量关于世界的数据，根据关于目前已经发生的事情，在那里或其他地区以往经验的指导下，研究在给定时点的一个国家或一个城市中接下来怎样才有可能成功。它将类似于亚马逊公司的推荐系统，根据你和所有其他人的经验向你推荐可能喜欢的书籍。