ISSUE23 望各位多提宝贵意见！

beckhamwiseUID: 142845

23"Contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information. As a result, people have become so preoccupied with bits of fragmented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives."

Position: It is true that contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information, but it is not correct to argue that people have become preoccupied with bits of fragmented information and pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives.

A) Contemporary technology facilitates our life by supplying us with small pieces of factual information.
B) Whether the information is helpful depends on whether it can facilitate people's work, study and life, not on its content.
C) To make full use of information supplied by modern technology, it is important to choose some that is really beneficial, not all of them.


  With the development of the technology, information flood in modern society. We can, almost at any time, get whatever we want from contemporary tools, such as the high way of information and so on. Someone argue that although the bomb of information takes a large stake in our life, many small pieces of factual information it supplies have made people become so preoccupied with bits of fragmented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives. However, the facts do not seem to support this view. It is true that information has changed our life, but whether it is good does not depends on whether it is fragmented.

  Undoubtedly, contemporary technology indeed facilitates our life by bringing us information, some of it is fragmented. Before about one hundred years or more, when there was no one knowing what was a television, information spread at a low speed, and this severely hindered the development of mankind. Then, telephone appeared, and it had become true to talk to somebody who was miles and miles away. And television, which told us what was happening far away, enjoyed popularity. Why did people welcome these facilities? That is because they brought information people were eager to get. Nowadays, Internet, V-A telephone and some other hi-techs have come into being, and offered us so much information, which we could not imagine several years ago. A new revolution of information has come, causing a bomb of information, which let us communicate with foreigners just as neighbors, find a book in a library just as in our own bookcase. All these, facilitates our life.

  Some information is helpful for us, but there are always some not. Then, how can we tell which is which. There is a principle, that is, to consider whether it facilitates our work, study and life. Maybe some fragmented information is not helpful according to this principle, but we cannot deny all of them. On the other hand, information that concern on big scale will not be helpful sometimes. Such as some information on how to repair a bicycle, although small, facilitates our life. Information of this sort, although small, solves the problems we may meet in everyday life, and as a result, they are helpful.

  Indeed, some information, on some occasions, do some harm to us, because they sometimes do not make our life or work easy, and to the contrary bring trouble to it, not for the reason that they are fragmented and limited our attention only in a tiny scale. Fragmented information, maybe, really prevent us to view the whole, but it is not their fault. In fact, it is ours. Any information has no thoughts, and whether it will bring help or harm depends on the person who receives it. Take book as a case. There are millions of books in the world, some of them give us wise, and some of them offer us something that is not very good, such as porn books. Suppose that your friend has given you a book of this kind, and how to treat it is your own business. If you have some sanity, you will surely leave it along and never touch it. But, if you have something aberrant in your mind, and cannot resist the temptation, it will bring harm to you, to be more exact, you will absorb harm from it. We all live with different kinds of information, and should choose some of it that is really beneficial for us to take in. As to those, which are of no help, or even noxious, we must resist them.

imongUID: 140258

信息爆炸是Information explosion.

To beckhamwise
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imongUID: 140258

Issue 23   "Contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information. As a result, people have become so preoccupied with bits of fragm ented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives."  

zz from 无忧GRE 作者：otolanmei      

这篇文章body1的关于整体与零散的分析比较新颖，但是第二段的TS实在不敢恭维，还不如直截了当说明短处呢。此外整体THESIS统领全文和前后一致上面也需要进一步改进。当然，问题归问题，文章大家不妨参考。

We are now entering an era of rapid social and technological changes which to some extent are dominated by the instant communication by means of computers ,mobile phones ,the internet and so on.Enabled a lot by these convenient communication tools,the mass media have become unprecedentedly powerful which make it possible for us to catch up the pace of the world and pick up almost every bit of information.Therefore some people claim that contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information.As a result,people have become so preoccupied with bits of fragmented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives.However,personally,I think people today are benefiting greatly to acquire a thorough knowledge of large issues and overall perspectives.

Admittedly,we are often preoccupied with bits of fragmented information but this does not follow that we will ignore the great issues and view them in overall perspectives.One fact is that the powerful mass media of internet and mobile communication with the characteristic of instantaneous transmitting information from one place and one person to another place and time,which create a smooth channel for people to get to know information from different perspectives is favorable for people to come to an objective conclusion on events no matter they are trifle or significant.Without the convenience contemporary technology has created for people,it is difficult to approach to a thorough understanding of something due to the lack of bits of information which seems to be fragmented but in fact reflects all aspects of the something and various opinions of different people that help us to learn better of that something.For example,when Beijing has won the authority of holding the 2008 Olympic game,all Chinese people obtained an overall information of the bidding course through television,internet,newspaper and even mobile phone.It is impossible for them to obtain a thorough understanding of the bidding course without their acquisition of bits of framented information from various forms of mass media.To some extent,the example clearly shows that the preoccupation with bits of fragmented information not only provides people with enough and complete information on something,but also enables us to analyze and come to an objective conclusion instead of rashly draw a subjective one which results from the lack of other opinions.

However,there is one possible trouble that we must try to avoid.With the overwhelming of fragmented information,we must caltivate the ability of discriminating from them what is the essential and critical information and avoid being influenced by the trifle or even misleading information so that we can concentrate our attention on the key issues that matter.For example,China''s 20-year reform and opening that leading the Chinese people to live a happier and much richer life than before has ever being reported by both the domestic and the foreign media.However,in the vast ocean of information that contains eulogy as well as criticism,it is important for us to discriminate the cogent and credible information from those slanderous and misleading information so that we can view the great event in China properly and objectively.Otherwise,we may overlook the mistakes we have made during the course and disparage the progress we have made,which as a result will harm the overall construction of China.From this example,we should realize the importance of correctly and objectively evaluating every bit of fragmented information so that we can get the true image of the whole matter we are trying to understand.

In sum,contemporary technology has made a lot of convenience for people learn many pieces of factual information,which can be of great help for people to get to know the overall matter correctly and objectively provided people are not lost in the vast ocean of information and have the ability of discriminating the essential and reliable information from the misleading and trifle information.