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The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era pos
The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era pos
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2023-08-18
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The Internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. By the middle of the 21 century, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.
Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Intranet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, "No, quite the contrary." The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a "technological renaissance" say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friends — not to mention strangers. And what’s more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing.
The techno experts promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape.
If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the dotcom generation, it seems is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24-hour electronic trading markets, online banking services, all-night e-commerce are all for our attention.
And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because that labor-and time-saving services only increase the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us but make time itself the most scarce of all resources. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each other’s electronic messages.
Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral principle and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyperspeed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect?
Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-commerce era. If this new technology revolution is only about hyperefficiency, then we risk losing something even more precious than time — our sense of what it means to be a caring human being. [br] The phrase "the colonization of time"(Para. 4)refers to_____.
选项
A、the filling of every moment of time with commercial transactions
B、the quest for efficiency in the workplace
C、the growing use of electronic mail and other time-saving services
D、the impact of technology on our sense of time
答案
A
解析
词义题。本题定位到第四段第一、二句,可知如今的网络一代似乎更专注于对时间的colonization,后一句又进一步解释colonizationof time是every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form ofcommercial connection,故选A。其中transaction是connection的同义表达。
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