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Technology

Negative impact of Google on human beings
Google makes deep reading impossible. Media changes. Our brains’ wiring changes too. Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.
谷歌阻止了深度阅读。随着媒体的变化，我们的大脑也在变化。电脑替我们思考，降低了我们的智商。

Positive effect of Google on human beings
在很大程度上，谷歌让我们摆脱了寻找信息的繁琐和费力。那些质疑谷歌给我们带来的好处的人，是对这种简化我们生活的工具充满彻底的敌意。
If people question the benefit of Google, which has largely liberated us from the time-wasting activities associated with finding information, there is outright hostility to a tool that condenses our lives into haiku.


Good Phrases:
1 Technology does not dumb us down. It frees our minds.
2 a 100-abridged version
3 some subset of that group
4 Google makes deep reading impossible. Media changes, our brain’s wiring changes too. Computers think for us, flattening our intelligence.
5 wade through
6 the enemy of human intellectual progress
7 manage the prodigious flow of information
8 If people question the benefit of Google, which has largely liberated us from the time-wasting activities associated with finding information, there is outright hostility to a tool that condenses our lives into haiku.
9 It was hard to think of a new technology that was feared when it was introduced.
10 Technology freed engineers from wasting time on mundane tasks so they could spend more time creating. Many technological advances have that effect.
11. It gives us time for more productive activities. But for all the new technologies that increase our productivity, there are others that demand more of our time.
12. In a knowledge-based society
13 Companies compete for eyeballs.
14 We are not paid for our attention span, but rewarded for it with yet more distractions and demands on our time.
15 The pessimistic assumption that new technologies will somehow make our lives worse may be a function of occupation or training.
16 put trust in human improvement.
17 Thinking has gone horrible awry.
18 Over the course of human history.
19 Writing, painting, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.




Samples
1 Socrates feared the impact that writing would have on man’s ability to think.
2 The advent of the printing press also summoned the similar fears.
1+2à It is hard to think of a technology that was not feared when it was introduced.

3 When Hewlett-Packard invented the HP-35, the first hand-held scientific calculator, in 1972, the device was banned from some engineering classrooms. Professors feared that engineers would use it as a crutch, that they would no longer understand the relationships that either penciled calculations or a slide rule somehow provided for proficient scientific thought.
But the HP-35 hardly stultified engineering skills. Instead, in the last 36 years those engineers have brought us iPods, cell phones, high-definition TV and, yes, Google and Twitter.
3à It freed engineers from wasting time on mundane tasks so they could spend more time creating.

4 Take tax software, for instance. The tedious job of filing a tax return no longer requires several evenings, but just a few hours.
4à It gives us time for more productive activities.