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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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2015-04-29
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"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.
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
选项
A、Michael Harris has just got his first book published.
B、Harris analyzes what we may lose in the connected world.
C、The End of Absence reflects upon pre-Internet life.
D、People grow even more greedy in the Internet times.
答案
D
解析
细节题。作者在第二段中说,Mr.Harris将我们进入网络时代时继承和丢失的东西进行了分类,而greedy appetites是从前网络时代继承下来的,作者并没有说人们会变得更加贪心,可见[D]是对原文的曲解,故为答案。
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