Very soon, unimaginably powerful technologies will remake our lives. This could have dangerous consequences, especially because

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问题     Very soon, unimaginably powerful technologies will remake our lives. This could have dangerous consequences, especially because we may not even understand the basic science underlying them. There’s a growing gap between our technological capability and our underlying scientific understanding. We can do very clever things with the technology of the future without necessarily understanding some of the science underneath, and that is very dangerous.
    The technologies that are particularly dangerous over the next hundred years are nano-technology, artificial intelligence and biotechnology. The benefits they will bring are beyond doubt but they are potentially very dangerous. In the field of artificial intelligence there are prototype designs for something that might be 50,000 million times smarter than the human brain by the year 2010. The only thing not feasible in the film Terminator is that the people win. If you’re fighting against technology that is much smarter than you, you probably will not win. We’ve all heard of the grey goo problem that self-replicating nanotech devices might keep on replicating until the world has been reduced to sticky goo, and certainly in biotechnology, we’ve really got a big problem because it’s converging with nanotechnology. Once you start mixing nanotech with organisms and you start feeding nanotech-enabled bacteria, we can go much further than the Borg in Star Trek, and those superhuman organisms might not like us very much.
    We are in a world now where science and commerce are increasingly bedfellows. The development of technology is happening in the context of global free trade regimes which see technological diffusion embedded with commerce as intrinsically a good. We should prepare for new and unfamiliar forms of argument around emerging technologies.
Which one is correct according to this article?

选项 A、Human’s ability of understanding is faster than new technology.
B、The future development of the unimaginable science is harder.
C、Embeding technology with commerce is good only in free trade regimes.
D、Emerging technologies are a challenge for human’s intelligence.

答案D

解析 从第1段和最后一段最后一句话可知,无比强大技术因为人类的理解能力而变得危险,人类应该对新技术的出现不断进行辩论,因此,新技术的出现要考虑人类的理解能力和人类的智慧。因此D项是正确的。
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