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"Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?" It is with this sobering que
"Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?" It is with this sobering que
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2015-08-26
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问题
"Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?" It is with this sobering question that Michael Harris, a Canadian journalist, begins his debut work, "The End of Absence".
To arrive at an answer, Mr. Harris combs through what remains of our pre-Internet lives, separating the things we will carry forward into the connected world from the worthy things we may leave behind. Our greedy appetites—for information, stimulation, validation—will come with us. But when all those wants are met no sooner than they have been felt, the knowledge of what it is to be left unfulfilled may not.
Without such absences, Mr. Harris argues, "we risk fooling ourselves into believing that things matter less. " He cites the example of De Beers, which "stores its diamonds to invent a scarcity that equals preciousness. " A culture of abundance devalues consumption. It fosters a vague feeling of dissatisfaction.
Even the basic act of contemplation(沉思)may suffer if idleness—when waiting for a bus, for example—is replaced with the easy entertainment offered by mobile phones. As with great music, silences are as much a part of the human experience as soaring crescendos(渐强). There is no inspiration without reflection.
Mr. Harris is no absolutist or ageing Luddite. Instead he makes a more cautious argument, following in the footsteps of writers like Nicholas Carr, whose book "The Shallows" had a powerful impact on our understanding of the way the Internet is rewiring brains. He speaks to Internet millionaires, computer scientists, academics and virtual robots to understand his anxieties better. His conclusion is a measured one.
Quoting Seneca, Mr. Harris stresses the need to combine solitude and the crowd, "and to have recourse(求助于)to them alternately". Just as humans are able to deny themselves an excess of the fats and sugars that their bodies are trained to desire, so too must they remain cautious about technology: " Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. " Only by doing this can the last generation to know a pre-Internet world ensure that those who come after appreciate what has been lost.
The relationship between music and silence is just like that between______.
选项
A、experience and contemplation
B、phone and entertainment
C、experience and inspiration
D、idleness and reflection
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据关键词music和silence定位至第四段。该段的首句的主题词是contemplation,而第二句以音乐相比喻,说音乐中的沉默十分重要,这与作者强调human experience中应该有contemplation一样,故[A]的说法正确。
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