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The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21st century, capitalist
The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21st century, capitalist
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2012-07-11
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The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21st century, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.
Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Intranet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, "No, quite the contrary." The very people responsible for ushering (开创) in what some have called a "technological renaissance" say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends — not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing.
The techno gurus (领袖)promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave (束缚 ) us in a Web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape.
If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the dotcom generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24 hour electronic trading markets, online banking services, all-night e-commerce, and 24-hour Internet news and entertainment all holler (呼唤) for our attention.
And while we have created every kind of labor-and-time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proliferation (激增) of labor-and-time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each other’s electronic messages. The cell phone is a great time-saver. Except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants our attention.
Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyperspeed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer (拖延), consider and reflect?
Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. If this new technology revolution is only about hyperefficiency, then we risk losing something even more precious than time — our sense of what it means to be a caring human being.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
选项
A、The New Internet Economy
B、Even Corporate Executives Get the Blues
C、The Failure of the Technological Renaissance
D、The Disadvantages of Too Much Access to Network
答案
A
解析
首段即为本文的主旨句,它提出到2l世纪中叶,资本主义市场将被一种以网络关系、契约安排和访问权利为基础的新的经济体系取代。接下来的几段作者围绕这种新型的网络经济展开,指出人们的生活质量并没有随着网络经济的发展而提高,反而下降了;人们变得缺乏礼貌,没有耐心,自由支配的时间减少。末段指出,我们应该知道在电子经济时代什么才是真正重要的东西。因此文章主要是在讨论一种新的经济形式——网络经济,故答案为[A]。
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