
随着美国诉伊丽莎白·霍姆斯案中上千封电子邮件、幻灯片、短信和文件的披露,Extend 公司的工程师 Bo Lau 创建了一个网站,模拟了在一切崩塌之前担任 Theranos 首席执行官可能是什么样子。
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to be the chief executive of Theranos before everything came crashing down.
Lau 创建的环境细节极其丰富,将你带回了 2016 年——那个 iPhone 还有主屏幕按钮、解锁需要滑动屏幕的时代。甚至连 MacBook Air 运行的都是 OS X El Capitan 系统。
The environment that Lau created is ambitiously detailed, taking you right back to 2016, a time when iPhones had home buttons, and you had to slide your finger across the screen to unlock it. Even the MacBook Air is running OS X El Capitan.
你可以点击浏览该环境,查看从法庭案件中公开的霍姆斯 iPhone 和笔记本电脑屏幕上的文件。你甚至可以操作 Theranos 的 Edison 机器,这是该公司那台注定失败的设备,曾被宣称能从一滴血中提取大量健康数据。
You can click around the environment, which lets you look through the documents made public from the court case on Holmes’ iPhone and laptop screens. You can even run the Theranos Edison machine, the company’s ill-fated device that was supposed to be able to extract large amounts of health data from one drop of blood.
这个项目看起来主要是为了博人一笑,但它实际上是一种阅读科技史上最臭名昭著案件文件的有趣方式——比起从法院网站上搜集数千份 PDF 文件,这种方式导航起来要容易得多。
The project seems like it was mostly made for laughs, but it’s actually an interesting way to peruse the documents from one of the most infamous court cases in tech history — it’s a lot easier to navigate this than to source thousands of PDFs from court websites.
不过,这背后还有另一个目的。Lau 正在为她公司举办的内森·菲尔德(Nathan Fielder)关于伊丽莎白·霍姆斯的纪录片《你可以看到一切》(You Can See Everything)的观看派对做宣传。
There’s another agenda, though. Lau is promoting a watch party that her company is throwing for Nathan Fielder’s upcoming documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything.”
当然,她也在宣传公司本身。那么,Extend 到底是做什么的呢?显然,它可以“以无与伦比的准确性解析、提取和拆分你最复杂的文档”。(我不太确定这意味着什么,但如果它能实现像霍姆斯办公桌模拟器这样的项目,那么我想我对 B2B SaaS 持乐观态度。)
Also, of course, she’s promoting the company itself. So, what exactly does Extend do? Apparently, it can “parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy.” (I’m not really sure what that means, but if it makes something like this Holmes desk simulator possible, then I guess that means I’m bullish on B2B SaaS.)