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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
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2020-12-14
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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.
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin’s cases remind us that the Internet______.
选项
A、has the function of turning a normal person into an idiot
B、is under the control of a group of people with poor intelligence
C、has made us lose our ability to think, analyze or criticize
D、has helped realize the transfer of publicity power
答案
C
解析
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