研究生英语unitIsGoogleMakingUsStupid课件.pptVIP

研究生英语 unit5 Is Google Making Us Stupid (2);Introduction to the author;Introduction to the author;Introduction to the author;Introduction to the author;Main Works ;;;The interplay of technological and economic forces rarely produces the results we at first expect. There are some who remain convinced that computerization will begin to close the wealth gap. That’s the pattern occurred in past technological revolutions. But when we take into account the economic forces , the replacement of workers with software, and the ability of companies to aggregate volunteer labor and harvest its economic value - we’re left with a prospect that is far from utopian. In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards. From The Big Switch:;;Introduction to Text;Introduction to Text;Other’s reaction to Carrs argument ;The Structure of the Text;Part 1 (para.1);;;;;Part 2 para2-3;;;;;;;;Part3 para4-6;;;Q3. According to the study, what is the reading habit of the people who visit sites that access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information? They just skim, hopping from site to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited. They read no more than one or two pages of an article before they would “bounce” out to another site. They save a long article, but they ever went back to read it .;;Part 4 (para7-10) ;;;;;;;Q5.When we read online, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” What the author actually meant? That is to say when we read online, we focus on superficial meaning of information, without digging into it. We just skim and scan through a article online. We seldom bother to read research papers or classical novels because such materials calls for meticulous efforts in reading between the lines rather than merely decoding information.;Paraphrase: 1.Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we ma