166. "Over the past century, the most significant contribution of technology has been to make people's lives more comfortable."
在上个世纪，技术最有意义的贡献就是使得人们的生活越来越舒适了。
1. Everybody benefits from the contribution of the technology to facilitate his or her private lives and works.
2. Many preeminent innovations of technology over the past century have greatly improved the development of society and industry.
3. Admittedly, with the development of technology, some problems arises---- green house effect, nuclear threats, environmental pollutions, etc. However, such drawbacks of technology do not surpass the benefit it brings about.
技术进步对人类的影响
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196. "Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life."
技术解决了问题，但是带来了更多的问题，并且可能会威胁或损害生活质量。
While mechanical automation may have diminished our quality of life on balance, digital automation is doing more to improve life than to undermine its quality.
1. Admittedly, mechanical automation spawned entire industries, creating jobs, stimulating economic growth, and supplying a plethora of innovative conveniences. Nevertheless, the sociological and environmental price of such progress may have outweighed its benefits.
2. In certain aspects, digital technology tends to diminish our quality of life and create its own legion of human slaves.
3. On the other hand, by relegating repetitive tasks to computers, digital technology has spawned great advances in medicine and physics, helping us to better understand the world, to enhance our health, and to prolong our lives.
技术对人类社会的影响
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219. "Now that computer technology has made possible the rapid accessing of large amounts of factual information, people are less likely than ever to think deeply or originally. They feel unable to compete with--much less contribute to--the quantity of information that is now available electronically."
既然电脑技术已经使人们及时接触大量真实信息成为可能，那么人们就不太可能像以前那样去深刻地或者创造性地思考了。对于通过电子手段获得的信息量，人们已经感觉跟不上了，并且个人的作用已经减弱了。
The availability of large amounts of factual information through the Internet does not necessarily hinder people from thinking deeply or originally.
1. No one would doubt that computer technology has led us into an age of information, putting us on an unprecedented advantageous position to access and use the boundless sea of information.
2. And there is no denying the possibility that we suffer from a new problem—information overload.
3. However, we should be clear that the task of human beings today is not to compete with computer technology in terms of the quantity of information we can produce
4. We should and we can make full use of the large amounts of information available electronically for research purposes and make original contributions.
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