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
The economic effects are easy to see. Since 1978, some 43 billion jobs have been lost, largely to forms of technology—either to
The economic effects are easy to see. Since 1978, some 43 billion jobs have been lost, largely to forms of technology—either to
admin
2013-08-28
74
问题
The economic effects are easy to see. Since 1978, some 43 billion jobs have been lost, largely to forms of technology—either to robotics directly or to computers that are doing what they are supposed to be doing, being labor-saving devices. Today, there is no such thing as a lifetime job; there is no such thing as a career for most people anymore. The jobs that are not done away with are being deskilled, or they are disposable jobs. Even for those jobs that many of you may feel secure with, there are people who are working on what are called "expert systems" to be able to take jobs away from doctors and judges and lawyers. The machine is capable of shredding these jobs as well.
But it’s not just the jobs. The economy of jobs and services is trivial compared to the "Nintendo capitalism" that now operates in the world. Four trillion dollars a day is shuffled around the earth as wealth created there. The inevitable result of a Nintendo economy—pulling itself apart, losing jobs, insecure—is the shriveling of the society in which it exists. What we have is an apartheid society, with growing gaps between the rich and poor, and the rich spending a lot of time cocooning themselves from the effects of the poor.
A further result of information technology—something that nobody seems to wish to pay much attention to—is the shredding everywhere of the natural world. Forget about the amount of toxins that go into producing these computers, and the resources that go into producing them, such that 40,000 pounds of resources are necessary for a four-pound laptop. That’s trivial compared to the direct effect that computers and the industrial system as a result have on the atmosphere and climate, the pollution of air and water.
The development in technology does not always bring human beings goods; there is bad news too. But most people are ignorant of the drawback of the new technology at first. In this century, however, the development in science and technology really aroused people’s attention of the weak points. But the technology has an even darker effect, because it is enabling us to conquer nature. Industrial society is waging a war of the techno-sphere against the biosphere. That is the Third World War. The bad news is that we are winning that war.
From the context, we can infer that "Nintendo capitalism" means______.
选项
A、a capitalism that is prosperous
B、a capitalism that is dooming
C、a worship of capitalism
D、a worship of technology
答案
B
解析
猜词题。也许考生并不太熟悉任天堂这个词,但根据句意至少可以确定作者赋予这个词的含义是负面的,仅凭这一点,我们就可以选出正确答案为B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/RdLd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语理工类A级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语理工类A级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
CarMaintenanceOnceitwasconsideredgoodpracticetoletthecarengineidleaminuteortwofollowingcoldstarts.Todaywit
AHarmScreeningMayDotoaYoungerWomanBInvestigatingtheEffectofScreeningCEffectsPredictedbyTwoDifferentMo
AHarmScreeningMayDotoaYoungerWomanBInvestigatingtheEffectofScreeningCEffectsPredictedbyTwoDifferentMo
In1861itseemedinevitablethattheSouthernstateswouldbreakawayfromtheUnion.
AGoalsBHistoryofWomen’sRightsMovementCStartofWomen’sRightsMovementDTraditionalStatusofWomenERightsofW
AGoalsBHistoryofWomen’sRightsMovementCStartofWomen’sRightsMovementDTraditionalStatusofWomenERightsofW
Hewasawarded$1,000damagesfortheinjuryhesufferedintheaccident.
EconomicGrowthTheeconomyofanationrequires(46).Totaloutputmustgrowifthecountryistoabsorbabout1.5millionneww
Shestoodthere,tremblingwithfear.
Heenduredgreatpainbeforehefinallyexpired.
随机试题
A.insightfulB.hugeC.immenseD.quantityE.qualityF.declinedG.commonH.greatlyI.involvedJ.conc
地理环境在社会发展中的作用,主要通过()
不良反应的引发因素有
在保险合同履行过程中,按照约定承担赔偿或者给付保险金义务的人是()。
李某向某商业银行借款100万元,年利率为5%,以复利计算,2年后应偿还本息共计()万元。
教学设计是一个分析教学问题,设计解决方法,加以实施并由此进行评价和修改,直至获得解决问题的最优方法的过程。这个过程体现了教学设计工作的()
ZhangLiangying’snewCDwill______nextmonth.
我国刑法的基本原则有()。
Ascollegeseniorshurtleintothejobhunt,littleliesontheresume—forexample,claimingadegreewhenthey’rethreecredits
Itisratherforyourmothertodecidethanforyou.
最新回复
(
0
)