While we initially heralded the Internet as the fantastic new marketing device that was going to solve all our problems, we now realize that the Internet is, if anything, too effective in that regard.
最初我们把互联网看做是 奇妙的新行销手段， 认为它能解决我们所有的问题， 我们现在意识到互联网 在这方面有些过头了。