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He changed the future without ever winning a vote or commanding an army. All Albert Einstein did was having an idea. It’s not a
He changed the future without ever winning a vote or commanding an army. All Albert Einstein did was having an idea. It’s not a
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He changed the future without ever winning a vote or commanding an army. All Albert Einstein did was having an idea. It’s not a particularly easy one to grasp in all its
ramifications
, but the basic insight he expressed in his 1905 paper on special relativity is almost childlike in its simplicity. And yet it ushered in a new golden age of physics and did much to shape the course of the 20th century.
It also transformed the way the future is made: not with wars and revolutions but with scientific insights. That much is still true. But it is history that science precedes at the hands of the occasional lone genius. These days, vast networks of laboratories sponsored by governments are all pushing to find the new thing. Discovery and invention, in the developed countries at least, have become regularized. The insights of individuals are still important, of course, but the overall effort relies less on any one genius. "In the late 19th century, you had predominantly the private inventor," says Yale historian Daniel Kevles. "Now you have the organized inventor. Scientific fields are crowded with geniuses. Everybody’s working at the big problems all the time. "
This shift in the methodology of discovery has complicated matters. It is chiefly responsible for the complexity of machines, but also for the growing complexity of the act of inventing and building. The Pentagon awards a contract for a new jet fighter to a prime contractor, which passed the various systems and subsystems and components down through layers of subcontractors. "Henry Ford could understand every piece of his assembly line," says Don Kash, a technology expert at George Mason University in Washington D. C., "Nobody can do that at Toyota. "
What’s different now, though, is how comfortable we’ve become with such complexity.
Innovation is part of our lives in a way it hasn’t been for previous generations. In 1970, Alvin Toffler argued in Future Shock that technology was changing society so quickly that a person in the span of a single lifetime would find himself a stranger in his own culture. Toffler’s book struck home because many people felt that new technologies were bringing about change at a pace that was disorienting and not a little disturbing. These days we’ve learned how to ride the rocket of innovation. "My father thought the world would be the same," says Kash. "My children wake up every day thinking the world will be different. "
According to the text, what is people’s attitude towards innovation nowadays?
选项
A、Scared.
B、Comfortable.
C、Disturbing.
D、Indifferent.
答案
B
解析
根据本文内容,如今人们对创新的态度如何?[A]害怕。[B]适应。[C]不安。[D]漠不关心。根据题干中的重点词innovation,可知第四段为所考查的内容。本段指出,以前,人们对于发明和发明所带来的变化是disorienting和disturbing的。从第一句主题句就可推知人们的这种态度已经变成comfortable了。文章最后提示ride the rocketof innovation(驾驭创新的火箭),可见人们已经适应了创新和发明。
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