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Exercise 2 Practicing Sentence Patterns Unit 4 》Part IV 》Exercise 2 3. However, why should people who program computers be so concerned about copyrights, of all things? To programmers, “hacker”, in the most literal sense, is someone who can make a computer do what he wants whether the computer wants to or not. 2. There is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that is merely ugly and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative. From Main Reading Sentence Pattern Pool Unit 4 》Part IV 》Exercise 2 6. It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan. 4. The next generation of computer technology has often— perhaps more often than not—been developed by outsiders. 5. In 1977, there was no doubt some group within IBM was developing what they expected to be the next generation of business computer. From Main Reading Sentence Pattern Pool Unit 4 》Part IV 》Exercise 2 9. There is a social and political expectation that records will be kept, says Peter Allen of CSC, a technology provider: “The more we know, the more we are expected to know—for ever.” 7. Current rules on digital records state that data should never be stored for longer than necessary because they might be misused or released. 8. But Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger of the National University of Singapore worries that the increasing power and decreasing price of computers will make it too easy to hold on to everything. From Related Reading Sentence Pattern Pool Unit 4 》Part IV 》Exercise 2 12. A reasonable presumption might be that the trail of data that an individual leaves behind and that can be traced to him, from clicks on search engines to book-buying preferences, belong to that individual, not the entity that collected it. 10. In the future, it is more likely that companies will be required to retain all digital files, and ensure their accuracy