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技术进步对人类影响类——ISSUE 30 技术类高频第九：考过16次 30.“The primacy goal of technological advancement should be to increase people’s efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time.” 技术进步的首要目标是提高人们的效率以便于每个人都享有更多的闲暇时光。 属于：技术进步之空闲时刻 范文：The primary goal of technological advancement The speaker contends that technology’s primary goal should be to increase our efficiency for the purpose of affording us more leisure time. I concede that technology has enhanced our efficiency as we go about our everyday lives. Productivity software helps us plan and coor4dinate projects; intranets, the Internet, and satellite technology make us more efficient messengers; and technology even helps us prepare our food and access entertainment more deficiently. Beyond this concession, however, I find the speaker’s contention indefensible from both an empirical and a normative standpoint. The chief reason for my disagreement lies in the empirical proof. With technological advancement comes diminished leisure time. In 1960, the average U.S. family included only one breadwinner, who worked just over 40 hours per week. Since then the average workweek has increased steadily to nearly 60hours today; and in most families there are now two breadwinners. What explains this decline in leisure despite increasing efficiency that new technologies have brought about? I contend that technology itself is the culprit behind the decline. We sue the additional free time that technology affords us not for leisure but rather for work. As computer technology enables greater and greater office productivity, it also raises our employees’ expectation—or demands-for production. Further technological advances breed still greater efficiency and, in turn, expectations. Our spiraling workload is only exacerbated by the competitive business environment in which nearly all of us work today. Moreover, every technological advance demands our time and attention-in order to learn how to use the new technology. Time devoted to keeping pace with technology depletes time for leisure activities. I disagree with the speaker for another reason as well: the suggestion that technology’s chief goal should be facilitate leisure is simply wrongheaded. There are far more vital concerns that technology can and should address. Advanced in biotechnology can help cure and prevent diseases; advances in medical technology can allow for safer, less invasive diagnosis and treatment; advances in genetics can allow for safer, less invasive diagnosis and treatment; advances in genetics can help prevent birth defects; advances in engineering and chemistry can improve the structural integrity of our building, road, bridge, and vehicles; information technology enables education while communication technology facilitates global participation in the democratic process. In short, health, safety, education, and freedom-and not leisure- are the proper final objectives of technology. Admittedly, advances in these areas sometimes involve improved efficiency; yet efficiency is merely a means to these more important ends. In sum, I find indefensible the speaker’s suggestion that technology’s value lies chiefly in the efficiency and resulting leisure time it can afford us. The suggestion runs contrary to the overwhelming evidence that technology diminishes leisure time, and it wrongly places leisure ahead of goals such as health, safety, education, and freedom as technology’s ultimate aims. 提纲 1.阐述观点，部分同意 2.技术带来得好处：休闲时间里得休闲活动增多，工作效率得提高 3.技术也会带来生活得越来越繁忙 4.总结归纳 MY ISSUE 472字 I agree with the speaker insofar as that, sometimes the technology can enhance people’s efficiency in order to give them more leisure time. However, the speaker’s idealism is just a side. As every coin has its two sides, sometimes the technological advancement also makes people’s lives busier. First of all, technology has helped people to make their life more leisure as well as makes people’s work more efficiency. Nowadays, as a beneficent of technological development of different tools, We all can feel that, due to the communication technology the world is get smaller than before. For example, wherever we are, we may use mobile phone, e-mail, worldwide web, even wireless computer network to get contact with each other. And express deliveries in nowadays include highway, subway, airline and so on. Of course, people can go to anywhere they want freely and conveniently by plane, cars, or magnetic suspension train. All of above give people a more leisure life, because when they got home they have more time and more various to choose the recreations such as watching TV or DVD problem, listening CD or mp3, playing net games and singing karaoke. The technologies also improve people’s working efficiency and their entertainment because they can use high-speed computer, facsimile machine, printing machine, net meeting and so on. All of these show that, because of the human being’s wisdoms, we lived in a highly civilized and developed society. Second, at the same time, any technological advancement requires people to take time get familiar and get used to. So when people sharing greatly comfortable life and convenience of technological advancement, people meanwhile face more challenging problems, particularly, with the increasingly rapid pace of people’s life and work, many people have to spend much more spare time to learn newly-created knowledge and skills in order to keep themselves more competent and competitive to their positions, otherwise they will be obsolete. Take the technicians of high-tech sectors as an instance, it is especially true to them which is well known because rapidly pace of knowledge evolution, they have to learn new knowledge day and night, and some even live in office and go back home once a month, which is really appalling. As a result, in today’s society, under the pressure of fierce competition and the quick change of technology, people have a busier life because the technological development actually requires people to learn more and to do more. Conclusion, people should pay close attention to the using of advanced technology. As a two-edge arrow, it’s glad to see how our achievements made in the technology have change people’s life to a more efficient, colorful and meaningful. But it also gives people more pressure and makes their life busier than before. So if people deal with it properly, their life will become better and better. [ Last edited by hummer on 2006-7-31 at 21:28 ] |
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| Compare the hours spent working by the average person in a first world country like America or Japan to the time spent on survival by our nomadic ancestors . Technological advancement has not exactly led to increased leisure time - though it certainly has increased leisure opportunities, and perhaps even quality. |
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| 谢谢分享！ |
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我来发表一点拙见 （首先道歉，最近实在是上网非常不方便，所以好久都没有来过了） 斑斑的语言是越来越好了 但是逻辑上还稍有欠缺 从题目上看 本题目是典型的should型： 科技的目标应该是增加人们的休闲时间 事实型题目和should型题目很容易弄混 一旦写混 就算语言修辞等等都用的非常到位 分数也不会很高 第一段 写的科技带来的好处 第二段 写的科技为什么没有提高人们的休闲时间 没有一段提到 科技的目的究竟应该是什么 我认为 第一段 很好 第二段 则应该写科技的首要目标是应该提高人类的休闲时间 还是应该是把解决什么重大问题放在首位 或者作者有别的什么看法 这是一个发表观点型的问题 不是评论型的问题 写成科技没有提高人类的休闲时间有点跑题 希望以后注意 一点小小看法 也许是不对的 谁有什么更好的看法请跟我讨论讨论  [ Last edited by edlesmile on 2006-8-11 at 18:24 ] |
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