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The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Facebook. They’ re upset because much of
The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Facebook. They’ re upset because much of
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2019-11-19
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问题
The people who run Facebook are furious about a new movie that depicts the existence of Facebook. They’ re upset because much of the story about The Social Network is just completely made up. But the really interesting thing about this movie is that the story tells a lager truth about Silicon Valley’ s get-rich-quick culture and the kind of people—like Mark Zuckerberg—who thrive in this environment.
The Valley used to be a place run by scientists and engineers. But now the Valley has become a casino, a place where smart kids arrive hoping to make an easy fortune building companies that seem at least not as serious as old-guard companies.
The three hottest tech companies today are Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga. Facebook lets you keep in touch with your friends; it will generate about $1.5 billion in revenue this year by bombarding its 500 million members with ads. Twitter is a noisy circus of spats and celebrity watching, and its hapless founders still can’ t figure out how to make money. The biggest of Facebook app-makers, reportedly will rake in $500 million this year by getting people addicted to cheesy games like Farmville and Mafia Wars.
Meanwhile, among some longtime techies, there’ s a sense that something important has been lost. "The old Silicon Valley was about solving really hard problems, making technical bets. But there’s no real technical bet being made with Facebook or Zynga," says Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer at Microsoft who now runs an invention lab in Seattle. "Today almost everyone in the Valley will tell you there is too much ’me-tooism’, too much looking for a gold rush and not enough people who are looking to solve really hard problems."
Sure, there are still entrepreneurs and investors chasing serious technology challenges in the Valley. Myhrvold says he means no disrespect to Facebook and Zynga. "What bother me are the millions of wannabes who will follow along, and the expectation that every company ought to be focused on doing really short-term, easy things to achieve giant paydays. I think that’ s unrealistic, and it’s not healthy." What he worries are "the unknown engineers and professors who have good ideas will get funded or will they be talked out of it and told they should do something like Zynga? "
We’ ve already fallen behind in areas like alternative energy, better batteries, and nanotechnolo-gy. Instead of racing to catch up, we’re buying seeds and garden gnomes on Facebook. This won’t end well.
The main idea about this text is______.
选项
A、America’ s lag in areas like alternative energy, better batteries and nanotechnology
B、an untrue movie about Facebook and Social Network
C、a tale about Silicon Valley’ s get-rich-quick
D、the negative impact on Silicon Valley from success of companies, like Facebook
答案
C
解析
本题为主旨题,答题需要纵览全文。文章主要讲:述硅谷盛行快速致富的氛围,越来越多的人已经忽略了硅谷科技创新的传统追求,从而引发人们更深入的讨论。C项“一个关于硅谷快速致富的故事”符合题意。A项“美国在替代能源、更好的电池和纳米技术等领域的落后”、B项“一部关于Facebook和社交网络的不真实电影”和D项“Facebook等公司的成功对硅谷的负面影响”都只是文章部分内容的概括,不能成为主旨,故本题选C。
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