首页
登录
职称英语
To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf
To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf
游客
2025-04-07
24
管理
问题
To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf’s assertion that social change exists everywhere. Technology, the application of knowledge for practical ends, is a major source of social change.
Yet we would do well to remind ourselves that technology is a human creation; it does not exist naturally. A spear or a robot is as much a cultural as a physical object. Until humans use a spear to hunt game or a robot to produce machine parts, neither is much more than a solid mass of matter. For a bird looking for an object on which to rest, a spear or robot serves the purpose equally well. The explosion of the Challenger space shuttle and the Russian nuclear accident at Chernobyl make people see how important
the human quality of technology
is; they provide cases in which well-planned systems suddenly became completely disordered and there was no ready hand to set them right. Since technology is a human creation, we are responsible for what is done with it. Pessimists worry that we will use our technology eventually to blow our world and ourselves to pieces. But they have been saying this for decades, and so far we have managed to survive and even flourish. Whether we will continue to do so in the years ahead remains uncertain. Clearly, the impact of technology on our lives deserves a closer examination.
Few technological developments have had a greater impact on our lives than the computer revolution. Scientists and engineers have designed specialized machines that can do the tasks that once only people could do. There are those who assert that the switch to an information-based economy is in the same camp as other great historical milestones, particularly the Industrial Revolution. Yet when we ask why the industrial Revolution was a revolution, we find that it was not the machines. The primary reason why it was revolutionary is that it led to great social change. It gave rise to mass production and, through mass production, to a society in which wealth was not confined to the few.
In somewhat similar fashion, computers promise to revolutionize the structure of American life, particularly as they free the human mind and open new possibilities in knowledge and communication. The Industrial Revolution supplemented and replaced the muscles of humans and animals by mechanical methods. The computer extends this development to supplement and replace some aspects of the mind of human beings by electronic methods. It is the capacity of the computer for solving problems and making decisions that represents its greatest potential and that poses the greatest difficulties in predicting the impact on society. [br] The examples of the Challenger and Chernobyl cited by the author serve to show that______.
选项
A、if not given close examination, technology could be used to destroy our world
B、technology is a human creation, so we are responsible for it
C、technology usually goes wrong, if not controlled by man
D、being a human creation, technology is liable to error
答案
B
解析
细节推断题。根据题干关键词the Challenger,Chernobyl定位到原文第二段第五句。举到这些例子是为了说明紧接着一句的观点。笫六句中的technology is a human creation和we are responsiblefor…it.与选项B重现。故答案为B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4030085.html
相关试题推荐
TheUnitedNationLawoftheSeaConferencewouldsoonproduceanocean-miningt
ToproducetheupheavalintheUnitedStatesthatchangedandmodernizedthe
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
WhowontheWorldCup1994footballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNation
随机试题
Localsuccess
Thefirstparagraphtellsthat______.[br]InAmericansocietyyoungpeople___
已知求
在网络计划工期-费用优化中,关于缩短对象的描述,正确的有()。A.应缩短间接
重要地理信息数据主要包括()A:涉及国家政治主张的地理信息数据B:国家海岸线长
Thechangeinthatvillagewasmiraculou
相对分公司而言,跨国公司设立的子公司的特点有()。A.不是一个独立的法人实体
EVA?是衡量企业()的综合指标。 A.经营效率B.偿债能力 C.
DMFT中F是指A、因龋而未做充填的牙数 B、因龋已做充填但同时伴有继发龋的牙
下列不属于冶金工程的是( )。A.焦化工程 B.高炉工程 C.转炉工程 D
最新回复
(
0
)