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Internet Will Soon Close The Internet, perhaps the most important technological development of the past 30 years, succeeded
Internet Will Soon Close The Internet, perhaps the most important technological development of the past 30 years, succeeded
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2013-01-10
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Internet Will Soon Close
The Internet, perhaps the most important technological development of the past 30 years, succeeded unexpectedly. It started out in an experimental backwater, nurtured far from the mainstream. It was spawned with no business plan and with no CEO leading the charge. Instead, a group of researchers— nerds, really—had the very un-entre-preneurial idea to develop a set of free and open technical protocols to move data from one place to another. The PC, which I think of as a companion technology to the Internet, likewise groomed as the hobbyhorse of passionate nerds who (at least initially) shared their designs. Both the Internet and the PC were released unfinished, and because they were open technologies, businesses and inventors could use them as a springboard for innovation. New applications were deployed to use them without needing the permission of their vendors.
This kind of openness isn’t found in cars, fridges, TiVos or any other major technology. It’s what helped the Internet and PC succeed over more boring, predictable counterparts— proprietary networks like CompuServe and information appliances like dedicated smart word processors. However, now that PCs and the Internet have become mainstream tools, there’s rising pressure to turn them into the appliances they defeated: to close them, in some cases forbidding outside tinkering altogether, and in others allowing it only under closely monitored and controlled circumstances. The Internet and the PC as wellsprings of innovation are living on borrowed time.
The new closed models that represent the likely future of consumer computing and networking are no minor tweaks. We face wholesale revision of the Internet and PC environment of the past several decades. The change is coming partly because of the need to address security problems peculiar to open technologies, and partly because businesses want more control over the experience that customers have with their products. The trend from open systems toward closed ones threatens the culture of serendipitous tinkering that has given us the Web, instant messaging, peer-to-peer networking, Skype, Wikipedia and a host of other innovations, each of which emerged from left field. It will produce a concentrated set of new gatekeepers, with us and them prisoner to their limited business plans and to regulators who fear things that are new and disruptive.
According to the text, which of the following is TRUE about the Internet?
选项
A、It was born as a result of a business plan.
B、It was initially developed by enterpreneurs to make profits.
C、It was born by accident as an open and free technique.
D、It was born as a fininshing product at first.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。选项[A]、[B]与文章第一段第三、四句的内容相反:“因特网在诞生时并没有行业发展规划,也没有首席执行官来负责指导。相反,它是由一群科技人员(其实是书呆子)怀着非商业想法,想要发展一套技术协议,把数据从一地转移到另一地,大家可互相分享”。[D]与本段第六句意思相反:“因特网和PC在面世时都是半成品…”。[C]的相关信息在第一段第一、四句:“因特网大概是最近几十年来最重要的一项技术成果,它却是在偶然中诞生的。…大家可互相分享”;其中by accident替换了原文中的unexpectedly。
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