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江雪UID: 2790520

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issue88 追星剑特训

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Danny的issue88

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imong点评的一篇issue88

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so猫的issue88

用so猫的话讲，issue88堪称作文版最为火爆的讨论之一。我从“issue突破专项”区中找出了作文版几位前版主写过或是点评过的文章，so猫那个帖子尤为精彩——高手云集，堪称作文版的华山论剑。

看过这些精彩的帖子，你有什么收获和反思？欢迎与大家分享O(∩_∩)O~

hyacinthUID: 2184492

still classic~~

: ))

江雪UID: 2790520

我看到imong说“能掐出一篇6分范文也不错”的时候，笑喷了O(∩_∩)O~

xingfuhbjUID: 2769976

昨儿呼应主题耗时N久磨了一篇~
路过的大侠们帮忙掐掐大致的逻辑啥的吧~~~
话说还没在论坛在单独发文求拍过啊~
谢谢咯！

Since we have stepped into the Information age, technology, which means the science and the application of it, has entered into and became the great mass of our life. From small to large, behaviors to minds, local to global, technology do substantially influence us a lot. And there is no exception for social customs and ethics. But since such two things are the offspring of humanity, and were formulated during a considerable time -- hundreds of even thousands of years, it is not so easy for technologies to bridle them.

Admittedly, technologies play a vital role in changing our social customs and ethics. Take the aspect of social customs first. By making our lives more convenient, technologies have already altered the lifestyle of plenty people. For example, due to the electricity, the word "dark and silent" is not along with "night" any more. Now, night is even brighter and more clamorous than the day, and few people still sack out at 9 or 10. Theaters, bars, casinos are the most welcome recreational places. And with various vehicles, people now would prefer to take a trip instead of staying at home when having their limited holidays. And thanks to the mobile phone and the Internet, we have no longer need to spend several days waiting for a letter from the friends thousand miles away. In fact, now the Internet has already earns a nomination for the 2010 Noble Prize, for "helping advance dialogue, debate and consensus". From which we could recognize the irreplaceable impact of technologies.

What's more, technologies have even brought a revolution to our ethics. Hundreds of years ago, women, black people and farmers owned little respect and civil rights. Things changed during this time period. Now, a brilliant woman -- Angela Merkel has became the Chancellor of German, and an African American -- Barack Obama has became the president of US, and myriad farmers have became rich and have ascended to the middle and upper class. Besides, superstition has almost eliminated. When experiencing a deluge, an eclipse of the moon, or some supernatural phenomena, people no longer kill animals or even young boys and girls as the sacrifice. Through science and technologies, they realized that everything happens for a reason and know how to tackle with those cataclysms. They know that the eclipse of the moon is not because the dog above was too angry to eat the move, but for the reason that the earth moved to a position right between the moon and the sun, thus the moon, which was shining by reflecting the light from the sun, can't receive enough light and darkened.

However, no indication has showed that technologies were able to determine social customs and ethics, nor will any in the future. (This sentence seems has some grammar errors, but I don’t know how to revise it.) Actually, the movie "Bicentennial Man" has just corroborated the fact. In this movie, the leading character is a robot with human intelligence and feelings. Though he could be regarded as a masterpiece of the technology, he was not allowed to marry his lover, for violating the social customs ad ethics. This cost him two hundred years to transform into a real person from a robot, to be able to seek his true love. And in the real world, the technologies also can't curl the two things too. Take Chinese as an example, they have a tradition that a family should reunite during the Spring Festival. Such an unalterable customs has led to the annual most large scale collective migration in the world. No matter how far the modern conveyances have taken them away from home, they will manage to back home during the Spring Festival.

All in all, unless people are willing to change, technologies will still be the tools that can only affect our minds a lot, but incapable to determine them. Besides, we should never let technologies become the hierarch of our minds.