unit 7 americas Vision for Digital future 新世纪高职英语（第三版）第２册教材.ppt

Teaching Objective ;Teaching Objective ;U7;Lead In _main;Text Study _main;Language Application-main;Drills for PRETCO Test-main;Information technology1;commerce, health care, education, manufacturing, and personal interaction. These technologies bind together every nation’s economy and have altered daily life.;Microsoft Windows1;Microsoft Windows2;The Internet;President’s Information;Questions and Answers1;Questions and Answers2;Questions and Answers3;Questions and Answers4;Questions and Answers4;Questions and Answers5;Questions and Answers6;Questions and Answers7;Questions and Answers8;Questions and Answers9;Text Analysis 1;Text Analysis 2;Detailed Reading1; Federal research on information technology is seriously inadequate, according to a group of experts set up to advise the U.S. President. They urge the government to increase spending on IT research by $ 1.4 billion a year with the focus on long-term, high-risk projects.; The country that gave the world Windows and the Internet is in danger of losing its lead in information technology while the importance of IT to the U.S. economy has risen sharply over the past decade — fully a third of its economic growth since 1992 has been in this area — federal funding for IT research has remained flat or declined in real terms. Those programmes that are being funded tend to be directed to short-term objectives, reflecting priorities within industry itself. As a result, few companies are now supporting the kind of long-term research on which U.S. leadership has been founded.;Detailed Reading4; First, there is an urgent need to learn how to build large software systems. Because demand far outstrips supply, the U.S. depends on software which is often fragile, unreliable, hard to use and difficult to test and maintain. Software research should be “one of the Nation’s highest RD priorities.” Second, the Internet is growing at a pace far beyond the expectation of its designers and the strains are beginni