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
President Obama has been taking some heat in technology circles over comments he made at a commencement address over the weekend
President Obama has been taking some heat in technology circles over comments he made at a commencement address over the weekend
admin
2020-12-14
32
问题
President Obama has been taking some heat in technology circles over comments he made at a commencement address over the weekend about iPods and iPads and other digital distractions. Because of these things, he said, "information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. "
I hate to say this, but he’s right. Remember when computers were supposed to save us time? Now it seems just the opposite. The Internet just keeps giving us more ways to do nothing.
We have more information than ever before. We’re never away from it. The air around us fairly hums with it. Computers are all around us too—they’re on our desks, in our pockets, on our coffee tables. And yet I can’t shake the sense that we are all becoming stupider and stupider—and that we are, on average, less well informed today than we were a generation ago.
We’re reading e-mail. We’re tweeting and retweeting. We’re downloading apps, and uploading photos. We’re updating our Facebook status and reading our news feeds and telling the whole world what we like and don’t like, because for some reason we imagine that the whole world actually cares. You know what we’re not doing? We’re not thinking. We’re processing. There’s a difference.
We’re putting our brains into neutral, and revolving (使旋转) the engine. We’re digitally at a loss, clicking on links and swimming through a torrent of useless garbage being thrown at us by idiots and self-promoters, so-called experts and marketing people.
We’re immersing ourselves in games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, obsessed about earning energy packs, spending billions of dollars on virtual gardening tools.
We’re turning the world around us into a video game, using sites like Foursquare to tell our friends where we’re eating lunch, and competing to see who can become "mayor" of some restaurant.
Meanwhile, in the midst of all this, Glenn Beck has become an influential television commentator, and Sarah Palin is a credible candidate for president in 2012. You think this is a coincidence?
No way. What’s happening is this: we are being so overwhelmed by the noise and junk zooming (嗡嗡声) past us that we’re becoming immune to it. We’ve become a nation of Internet-powered fools, with an ever-lower threshold for boredom. Beck and Palin are the inevitable outcome of that devolution. They are, in fact, what we’ve created.
We have amazing new systems and tools for communicating information. The problem is we’ve become so fascinated with the means of transmission that we’ve lost sight of what’s actually passing along over the wires and airwaves.
Sadly, I don’t see that changing any time soon. If anything, I imagine it will get worse.
In the author’s opinion, the use of computers______.
选项
A、will finally lead to a stupid race of human beings
B、has brought an effect opposite to our previous anticipation
C、proves to be effective and efficient for modern people
D、is so popular that we can see them everywhere we go
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/MgP7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Theformerpresidenthasdoneagoodjob.B、Moststudentsthinkwomenenjoyequalrights.C、Thewomancan’tcompetewithother
A、Personalinstincts.B、Behavioralchanges.C、Conversationvideos.D、Psychologicalresearches.BBrinke博士的调查指出,运用一些客观、有理有据的生理和行为变
A、Yourclosestfriendsandcoworkerslietoyourregularly.B、60%ofpeoplelieduringa10-minuteconversation.C、16%ofpeople
A、Wecanbreatheaseasilyasusual.B、Wecancarryonashortconversation.C、Theaerobiccurveoccursattheendoftheexerci
A、WhattheUSpatentsystemwasabout.B、HowtheUSpatentsystemencouragedtechnologyandcreativity.C、HowtheUSpatentsyst
A、Bydoingoddjobsatweekends.B、Byworkinglonghourseveryday.C、Byputtinginmorehourseachweek.D、Bytakingshorterva
A、MeetingwithNoraKeller.B、Attendanceatmeetingswiththecoursetutor.C、Activeclassattendanceandparticipation.D、Punct
A、Theyloseinterestinwhatwearesaying.B、Theyliketoleadtheconversation.C、Theydonotunderstandwhatwesay.D、Itmay
A、Bytakingpartinspecificactivities.B、Bydoingmoreexercise.C、Bygivingbookstoyourfriends.D、Byeatingnutritiousfoo
随机试题
与胃癌的癌前病变无关的是
A.止嗽散B.泻白散C.清气化痰丸D.苏子降气汤E.贝母瓜蒌散
下列属于公开发行证券的是()。
圆截面杆ABC轴向受力如图5—1—6,已知BC杆的直径d=100mm,AB杆的直径为2d,杆的最大的拉应力是()。[2014、2011年真题]
素质教育是()。
现代学校制度的价值追求包括()。
二恶英是一种持久性有机污染物,目前对二恶英的治理存在各方面的难题。首先,对二恶英的监测技术要求很高,采样要求很严格,需要特殊的高灵敏检测仪器。其次,二恶英类化合物分布广泛、污染源多。垃圾焚烧是二恶英的一个重要来源,美、日、德都有比较先进的技术来处理,如活性
下列关于C++函数的叙述中,正确的是()。
有如下的类声明:#includeusingnamespacestd;classAA{public:virtualvoiddisp(){cout
Hollywoodhasamessageforscientists:Ifyouwantsomethingthat’s100%accurateineveryway,gowatchadocumentary.Thethi
最新回复
(
0
)