In The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want, writer Garret Keizer exposes the history of noise, its opponents and apologists, and recent efforts to measure and curb it. The result is a scattered mosaic that uses the conceit of human clamour to reveal the paradoxes of post-industrial life.rnEngineers use the term 'noise' to refer to anything that interferes with the transmission of a signal. A more familiar kind of noise, arising from machines and people, is omnipresent. It is hard to define, but we know it when we hear it. In 1931 the British physicist G. W. C. Kaye proposed that noise is "sound out of place"; others describe it as unwanted sound, sonic pollution or even sonic abuse.
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机译：在《我们想要的一切都不需要的声音》一书中，作家加勒特·凯泽（Garret Keizer）揭露了噪音的历史，它的反对者和辩护者，以及最近对其进行测量和抑制的努力。结果是散布的马赛克，利用人类喧嚣的自负来揭示后工业生活的悖论。工程师使用术语“噪声”来指代任何干扰信号传输的事物。由机器和人引起的一种更常见的噪声无处不在。很难定义，但听到后便知道。 1931年，英国物理学家凯威（G. W. C. Kaye）提出，噪音“听起来不合时宜”。其他人则将其描述为有害的声音，声音污染甚至声音滥用。
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