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The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not solely how to be
The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not solely how to be
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2013-02-05
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The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not solely how to be more productive, more comfortable, but how to be more sensitive, more sensible, more alive. The computer makes possible a gigantic leap in human proficiency; it demolishes the fences around the practical and even the theoretical intelligence. But the question persists and indeed grows whether the computer will make it easier or harder for human beings to know how they really are, to identify their real problems, to respond more fully to beauty, to place adequate value on life, and to make their world safer than it is now.
Electronic brains can reduce the profusion (繁多) of dead ends involved in research. But they can’t connect a man to the things he has to be connected to.. the reality of pain in others; the possibilities of creative growth in himself; the memory of the race and the rights of the next generation.
The reason why these matters are important in a computerized age is that there may be a tendency to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency to confuse logic with values, and intelligence with insight. Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they would lead.
Facts are terrible things if left spreading and unattended. They are too easily regarded as evaluated certainties rather than as the rawest of raw materials trying to be processed into the texture of logic. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of a fact. The computer can provide a correct number, but it may be an irrelevant number until judgment is pronounced.
To the extent, then, that man fails to make the distinction between the intermediate operations of electronic intelligence and the ultimate responsibilities of human decision and conscience, the computer could prove an irrelevance. It could obscure man’s awareness of the need to come to terms with himself. It may foster the illusion that he is asking fundamental questions when actually he is asking only functional ones. It may be regarded as a substitute for intelligence instead of an extension of it. It may promote undue confidence in concrete answers.
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts, but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient with them, we shall end in certainties.
Form the first two paragraphs we may infer that the author thinks one of the computer’s limitations is that ________.
选项
A、it can not improve human proficiency
B、it is not creative and productive enough
C、it fails to break the boundary of the practical and theoretical intelligence
D、it fails to make people more alert to real problems in human society
答案
D
解析
段落大意推论题。第1、2段作者主要提出了电脑的一些局限性。尤其是第2段最后一句提出,电脑无法使人们与自己必须面对的问题产生链接,“the possibilities of creative growth in himself;the memory of the race and the rights of the next generation”等问题都是人们必须应当注意的“real problems in human society”。故选D(根据第1、2段可推知,如果电脑能使人们关注真正的社会问题,作者就不会对电脑如此不满。)
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