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托福阅读材料:用微信的缺憾本文是TED演讲：This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face. 用微信最大的缺憾是什么？This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face。托福阅读材料:用微信的缺憾希望对大家托福备考有所帮助。更多精彩尽请关注新东方在线托福网!This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face　　0:11　　Our emotions influence every aspect of our lives, from our health and how we learn, to how we do business and make decisions, big ones and small. Our emotions also influence how we connect with one another. Weve evolved to live in a world like this, but instead, were living more and more of our lives like this -- this is the text message from my daughter last night -- in a world thats devoid of emotion. So Im on a mission to change that. I want to bring emotions back into our digital experiences.　　0:47　　I started on this path 15 years ago. I was a computer scientist in Egypt, and I had just gotten accepted to a Ph.D. program at Cambridge University. So I did something quite unusual for a young newlywed Muslim Egyptian wife: With the support of my husband, who had to stay in Egypt, I packed my bags and I moved to England. At Cambridge, thousands of miles away from home, I realized I was spending more hours with my laptop than I did with any other human. Yet despite this intimacy, my laptop had absolutely no idea how I was feeling. It had no idea if I was happy, having a bad day, or stressed, confused, and so that got frustrating. Even worse, as I communicated online with my family back home,I felt that all my emotions disappeared in cyberspace. I was homesick, I was lonely, and on some days I was actually crying, but all I had to communicate these emotions was this. (Laughter) Todays technology has lots of I.Q., but no E.Q.; lots of cognitive intelligence, but no emotional intelligence. So that got me thinking, what if our technology could sense our emotions? What if our devices could sense how we felt and reacted accordingly, just the way an emotionally intelligent friend would? Those questions led me and my te