So, NASA, at some point, did an experiment where they took images of Mars that they were mapping, and they said, instead of having three or four fully trained Ph.D.s doing this all the time, let's break it up into small components, put it up on the Web, and see if people, using a very simple interface, will actually spend five minutes here, 10 minutes there, clicking. After six months, 85,000 people used this to generate mapping at a
美国宇航局曾做过试验，他们需要用航拍照片来绘制火星地图 美国宇航局曾做过试验，他们需要用航拍照片来绘制火星地图 他们想，与其雇用三、四个受过专业训练的博士成天来做这项工作 不如试试看把这项庞大的工作分割成许多小部分，然后上传到网上 看人们会不会，通过一个简单界面，花上几分钟点点鼠标，共同完成这项工作 看人们会不会，通过一个简单界面，花上几分钟点点鼠标，共同完成这项工作 六个月后，共有八万五千名志愿者参与了这个项目