The Internet provides an amazing forum for the free exchange of ideas. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters. It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas. I developed this position years before the Internet came into wide spread u. And I am excited at the potential for the Internet to dramatically alter our global society for the better. However I am also troubled by the possible unintended negative conquences.
There has been much talk about the "new information age." But much less widely reported has been the notion that the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual urs. At first this might sound like an apparent contradiction: how can something, that is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas, alienate the participants?
drawtextI had a recent discussion with a friend of mine who has what he described as a "problem" with the Internet. When I questioned him further he said that he was "addicted," and has "fo
rced" himlf to go off-line. He said that he felt like an alcoholic, in that moderate u of the Internet was just not possible for him. I have not known this fellow to be given to exaggeration, therefore when he described his internet binges, when he would spend over twenty-four hours on line non-stop, it gave me pau to think. He said, “the Internet isn't real, but I was spending all my time on line, so I just had to stop." He went on to say that all of the time that he spent on line might have skewed his n of reality, and that it made him feel lonely and depresd.
我有一个最近讨论和我的一个朋友有他所说的“问题”如何学好英语的方法与网际网路。当我问他进一步的他说,他是“上瘾”,有“被迫”自己去离线。他说他感觉自己像个酒鬼,有节制地使用因特网对他来说简直就不可能。我知道这个人给夸张,所以当他描绘其互联网的不理智,当他会在rtp24小时以上在线不停fannie,寂静之声歌词这给了我不得不思考。他说:“因特网不是真实的,可是我的开支是我所有的时间上网,所以我不得不打住了。”他接着说,他花在线或许已经扭曲了他的现实感,而且使他感到孤独和沮丧。
The fragmentation of society has been lamented for some time now. It ems to me that i
my boss my herot probably began in earnest after World War II when a generation returned from doing great deeds overas. They won the war, and by God they were going to win the peace. Automobile ownership became commonplace and suburbs were created. "Progress" was their mantra. So even prior to the Internet's widespread popularity, folks were already becoming distanced from their extended families and neighbors. And when we fast-forward to today we e an almost cruel irony in that people can and often do develop on-line relationships with folks on the other side of the globe, without leaving their homes. But at the expen of the time that would have otherwi been available for involvement in other activities which might foster a n of community in their villages, towns and cities.
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人们对社会分裂感到悲哀已有较长一段时间了。在我看来它可能开始认真地在第二次世界大战之后,当一代人的伟大的功绩,回来做海外。他们赢得了战争,并由神他们要赢得和平。已经成为司空见惯的汽车所有权和郊区被创造的。他们的口号是“进步”。所以即使前互联网的广泛普及,人们都已成为距离他们的亲戚和邻居。更糟糕的是,当我们会快进到今天,我们看到了一个近乎残酷的讽刺:人们往往开展网上关系与另一半地球的另一边,不离开他们的
家园。但为代价的再也没有时间可供介入其他活动,也能培养社区意识的在村庄、乡镇和城市。
bdpLast weekend my wife and I invited our extended family to our home to celebrate our daughter's birthday. During the celebration my young nephew spent the entire time on my computer playing a simulated war game. My brother-in-law and I were chatting near by and it struck us that in generations past, his son, my nephew, would have been outside playing with his friends. But now the little fellow goes on line to play his games against his friends in cyberspace.
上周末,我和我太太邀请我们所有的亲戚来家里来庆祝我女儿的生日聚会。在庆祝我的小外甥花了整个时间在我的电脑上玩模拟战争游戏。我的姐夫和我聊天在附近,它打到我们rca是什么意思,在几代人的过去,他的儿子,我的侄子,早已以外的发挥与他的朋友。但是现在的小傢伙下去玩他的游戏线向他的朋友于网络空间。
It ems to me that the Internet is a powerful tool that prents an opportunity for the advancement of the acquisition and application of knowledge. However, bad on my per
matter什么意思sonal experience I can understand how, as they surf the web some folks might be confronted with cognitive overload. And I can also understand how one might have his or her n of reality distorted in the process. Is the Internet a real place? Depending upon how a "real place" is defined it might very well be. At the very least, I believe that when we u the Internet, we are forced to ask fundamental questions about how we perceive the world about us—perhaps another unintended conquence. Some would argue that the virtual existences created by some urs who debate, shop, travel and have romance on line are in fact not real. While others would argue that, since in practical terms, folks are debating, shopping, travelling and having romance, the conver is true.
