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Wearable gadgets like smart watches and Google Glass can seem like a fad that has all the durability of CB radios or Duran Duran
Wearable gadgets like smart watches and Google Glass can seem like a fad that has all the durability of CB radios or Duran Duran
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2017-01-15
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问题
Wearable gadgets like smart watches and Google Glass can seem like a fad that has all the durability of CB radios or Duran Duran, but they’re important early signs of a new era of technology that will drive investment and innovation for years.
Tech companies are pushing out waves of wearable technology products—all of them clumsy and none of them yet really catching on. Samsung is excitedly hawking its Galaxy Gear smart watch, and Google, Apple, Qualcomm(高通公司), and others are expected to come out with competing versions. Google Glass gets lots of gee-whiz attention, and every other day, someone new introduces a fitness tracker, a GPS kid-monitoring bracelet, or—yeah, seriously—interactive underwear.
These are all part of a powerful trend: Over the past 40 years, digital technology has consistently moved from far away to close to us.
Go back long enough, and computers the size of Buicks stayed in the back rooms of big companies. Most people never touched them. By the late 1970s, technology started moving to office desks—first as terminals connected to those hidden computers, and then as early personal computers.
The next stage: We wanted digital technology in our homes, so we bought desktop PCs. A "portable" computer in the mid-1980s, like the first Compaq, was the size of a carry-on suitcase and about as easy to lug as John Goodman. But by the 1990s, laptops got better and smaller, for the first time liberating digital technology from a place and attaching it more to a person.
Now we want our technology with us all the time. This era of the smartphone and tablet began with the iPhone in 2007. The "with us" era is accelerating even now: IBM announced that it’s making its powerful Watson computing—the technology that beat humans on Jeopardy! —available in the cloud, so it can be accessed by consumers on a smart device. In technology’s inexorable march from far away to close to us, and now with us, there are only three places left for it to go: on us, all around us, and then in us. "Wearable is the next paradigm shift, " says Philippe Kahn, who invented the camera phone and today is developing innards for wearable tech. "We are going to see a lot of innovation in wearable in the next seven years, by 2020. "
Hard to know which products will catch on. Glasses are an obvious way to wear a screen, but most people don’t want to look like a tech geek(极客). The masses might get interested if Google Glass can be invisibly built into hot-looking frames. A start-up called Telepathy is developing a slim arm that holds a microprojector that shoots images back to your eye. Another concept is to build a device with a tiny projector that suspends text or images out in front of you, like a heads-up display.
Compared with 1980s, what is the biggest development of portable computers in 1990s?
选项
A、They are easier to carry and closer to their users.
B、Their appearances are more elegant.
C、They are found on desktops instead of back rooms.
D、Computer producers provide more brands for selection.
答案
A
解析
根据第五段第二、三句可知,20世纪80年代中期的便携式电脑,例如康柏电脑,像手提箱那么大,携带起来就像拖拽着健硕的约翰·古德曼。但是到了20世纪90年代,笔记本电脑变得更好、更智能了,数字技术首次突破了地方的限制,与个人更紧密地结合起来。由此可知,[A]为正确答案。[B]和[D]在文中没有提及,故均排除;根据第四段第三句可知,[C]讲的是20世纪70年代的电脑与之前电脑的区别,故排除。
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