高级英语第一册Unit8 An Interactive Life.pptVIP

Unit8 An Interactive Life Barbara Kantrowitz Barbara Kantrowitz has been an editor and writer at Newsweek since 1985. She has written dozens of cover stories on education and family issues and has won numerous awards for her work. She is also a published fiction writer. A graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Kantrowitz lives in New York with her husband and two sons. Joshua Cooper Ramo Joshua Cooper Ramo (b. 1968) is a senior editor for the weekly newsmagazine Time, where he covers business and technology. Formerly he ran a new media company for Time Warner, publisher of Time Digital, and was a science and technology reporter and creator of the online service at Newsweek. This article ran as a cover story for Time in December 1996. An Interactive Life An interactive life is a life which acts reciprocally. What’s your opinion about the interactive life? What can you imagine? Newsweek Peter Jennings: Peter Jennings was the anchor and senior editor of ABCs World News Tonight, where he established a reputation for independence and excellence in broadcast journalism. He was the networks principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage and special events. an interactive life: a life which acts reciprocally or mutually put the world at your fingertips: to become familiar with the world by using the tips of your fingers on computers; fingertips here has both a literal and a figurative meaning ,literally it means the tip of the finger on the computer while figuratively it means to be familiar with as in the phrase “have at one’s fingertips” To get an idea…the past: In order to form a view of what will happen in the future, you need only to have a look at what happened in the past In the decades ….dramatically: In the tens of years covered by the machines on exhibition, the idea and purpose of sound recording experienced great changes Edison…communicate: Edis