首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
To Err is Human by Lewis Thomas Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this ti
To Err is Human by Lewis Thomas Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this ti
admin
2011-01-11
38
问题
To Err is Human
by Lewis Thomas
Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $ 379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy sounding names at your address, department stores send the wrong bills, utility companies write that they’re turning everything off, that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get instantaneously typed, guilty letters from the same computer, saying, "Our computer was in error, and an adjustment is being made in your account."
These are supposed to be the sheerest, blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering, tampering a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key. The computer, at its normal best, is infallible.
I wonder whether this can be true. After all, the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain, vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do, and more besides.
It is not yet known whether a computer has its own consciousness, and it would be hard to find out about this. When you walk into one of those great halls now built for the huge machines, and standing listening, it is easy to imagine that the faint, distant noises are the sound of thinking, and the turning of the spools gives them the look of wild creatures rolling their eyes in the effort to concentrate, choking with information. But real thinking, and dreaming, are other matters. On the other hand, the evidence of something like an unconscious, equivalent to ours, are all around, in every mail. As extensions of the human brain, they have been constructed the same property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities.
The author compared the faint and distant sound of the computer to the sound of thinking and regarded it as the product of ______.
选项
A、dreaming and thinking
B、some property of errors
C、consciousness
D、possibilities
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DDgO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
Producelargenumbersofnewplantsvegetativelywouldrequirelargenumbersofparentplantsandcorrespondinglylargetanksan
Amanwho______afterhisheartstoppeddescribedhisexperiencetootherpeople.
ThenumberofimmigrantslivingintheUSAhasrisenby16percentoverthelastfiveyears,fueledlargelybyrecentarrivalsf
Researchrevealsthatqualityafter-schoolprogramsimproveacademicperformance,decreaseyouthdelinquencyandotherhigh-risk
Amongalltheleisureactivities,sporthasbecomeanimportantoptionforthepeopletopursueexperiencewithits______advanta
Dostudentslearnasmuchwhentheyreaddigitallyastheydoinprint?Forbothparentsandteachers,knowingwhethercomputer-
Dostudentslearnasmuchwhentheyreaddigitallyastheydoinprint?Forbothparentsandteachers,knowingwhethercomputer-
Dostudentslearnasmuchwhentheyreaddigitallyastheydoinprint?Forbothparentsandteachers,knowingwhethercomputer-
Theintrepidfiremansavedpersonstrappedinaburningbuildingdisregardingofhisownsafety.
Thisisa_________situationwithhostilefeelingremainingbetweenthevillageandthePhillipsfamily.
随机试题
Y7131型齿轮磨床分度机构精度是由短爪、长爪与定位盘的接触密合精度保证的。( )
肝包虫病的典型MRI表现是
某研究者为探讨脂肪摄入量与男性前列腺癌的关系,在社区内选择高脂肪和低脂肪摄入者各200名,从50岁开始对他们进行随访10年。在随访期间,高脂肪摄入组中有20人。低脂肪摄入组中有10人被诊断为前列腺癌。这种研究方法为
患者,女性,25岁。近来出现咳嗽,咳痰黄而黏,胸闷,咽喉疼痛,声音嘶哑。该药属于()。
()对住宅类型的选择有重要参考价值。
下列属于桥涵工程施工组织设计内容的是( )。
背景资料:某施工单位中标一铁路既有线提速改造工程。工程内容包括路基、桥梁、隧道、机械铺轨(25m轨)、架梁(不包括梁的预制)及车站改造等。全线有双线桥梁3座,均为32m简支T梁,桩基础(旱桥);双线隧道1座,长3820m,均为Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ级围岩,
在团体意外伤害保单下,被保险人脱离投保团体时()
商业银行公司治理结构不规范,缺乏有效的监督管理机制体现在()。
Duringthepasttenorfifteenyears,agreatdealofattentionhasbeen【C1】______to"tellingitlikeitis,"or"lettingitallh
最新回复
(
0
)