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You can’t predict the future, but in Silicon Valley you can invent it. This is a popular saying at some companies that deliver d
You can’t predict the future, but in Silicon Valley you can invent it. This is a popular saying at some companies that deliver d
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2019-10-13
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You can’t predict the future, but in Silicon Valley you can invent it. This is a popular saying at some companies that deliver digital delights. But underneath the surface of modernity, openness and progress there’s a problem that technology can’t fix. Relatively young white males overwhelmingly run Silicon Valley firms and are stealing our future.
Facebook is more than a social hub. It has become an important centralizing authority for news. More than 40% of American adults rely on the social network to stay on top of the news. However, its trending news stories are softly manipulated by free-willed people.
Another example of Silicon Valley bias is the almost complete absence of the female perspective. These large companies are really designing the future unless the many can introduce the few to some more diverse perspectives about what’s useful or important.
Another big problem is that these corporations seem to know very little or care even less about other people. This bold claim has some basis in brain science — all tech people are slightly autistic. Autism (自闭症) can be a useful trait for seeking technical brilliance, but becomes an obstacle if a general naivete about human beings is translated directly into the design of products and services used worldwide.
How digital technologies enhance or diminish our humanity depends largely upon how much developers of technologies care about their fellow beings.
Privacy is a good example. If Internet culture is autistic, this could explain how some companies can regard privacy as accidental damage, how some companies constandy ignore or offend customers, and how some technology companies can’t see that an open, connected and copyright-free world isn’t necessarily better for everyone.
Jonathan Franzen has said that the Internet is "an incredible concentrator of wealth in the hands of the few while giving the appearance of voice and the appearance of democracy to people who are in fact being exploited by the technologies."
But if you’re an autistic corporation, you probably can’t see that "free" can come at a cost, that some privacy is fundamental to functioning government, that physical presence can matter or that some people don’t want to be online all the time or read everything on a screen.
After all, technology is a choice, not a destiny. We shape our future by the decisions we make today. We still have time to push things along in any direction we wish, commanding, altering and deleting technologies as we see fit.
It can be inferred from Paragraph Two that Facebook______.
选项
A、has been a reliable source of news
B、can determine the popularity of news
C、is no longer a social hub in the US
D、is the fastest source of news reports
答案
B
解析
第二段讲超过40%的美国成年人依靠社交网络了解新闻。该段最后一句的大意是:但是,Facebook的主要新闻故事是由随心所欲的人控制。言外之意就是Facebook可以决定哪些新闻是应该提供的,哪些是它不屑一顾的。
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