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发表于 2004-8-12 15:54:17
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Should the primary goal of technological development be assigned to increasing efficiency in the purpose of prolonging people’s leisure time? While I concede that the technology development increases people's efficiency, people become busier and busier as a result[我也觉得这个地方的as a result比较不合适,前面再有点论述,然后再as a result引出这句可能比较好]. And it is more like a function but not[不如用rather than 试试?] the primary goal of technology, which has further objective on higher level of human needs.[感觉不大舒服,可能是自己水平太低了]
Commonly speaking, people's efficiency is indeed improved by high advanced technology[个人比较喜欢将indeed放在后面,我也不知道是否好一些,请有高手的话指教一下]. Take the evolution in traffic vehicles for example, from the invention of bicycle, to the application of other motor vehicles, including automobiles, planes and boats, and so forth, the rapid development in transport industry makes it possible to travel the world in much a short time. Another proper illustration involves the popularity of computer and internet[I要大写的哦,作为专有名词,感觉上后面的tech.可以去掉,不过感觉上这句话前半部分我是没本事写出来的,嘿嘿] technology. No people can deny its contribution on improving our work and lives[又不太明白了,呵呵] efficiency. With their help, the job of boring literal copy become accurate and fast, communicating with each other[others吧?] becomes convenient and efficient, and the information in any corner [感觉上这个corner很棒]of the world can quickly available to people all over the world. Someone would argue that it is the widely distributing internet web which merges us into the mire of overloaded information so that making us confused and low efficiency. However, to resolve this problem, "Web Searchers" is invested to enhance people's efficiency of finding useful information from the ocean of knowledge. In another word, application of technology has largely improved the efficiency of people's life.
However, the improved efficiency seems to fail to render people more leisure time, but make them busier and busier. An recently national statistics indicate that most families today have two breakwinners and the total work hours reach nearly 80 hours a week, contrasting to those of ten year ago which usually have only one breakwinner and about 40 total work hours per week. Why do people lose more leisure time despite of the increasing efficiency? A possible reason involves the popular theory of Maslow, which divides the needs of people into five levels, from the basic levels such as life and safety needs to the highest ones of esteem and self-achievement. According to Maslow's theory, people whose basic life and safety needs have been satisfied by the developed technology, will continue to seek higher level of needs such as high quality of life, social status, dignity, and respect, and so forth[第二次出现so forth了,换换口味吧,我也是老喜欢用 so on,现在在你这儿学了个so forth,我以前一直不敢用,老觉得只能用在第四个上,现在也一直不敢用], and thus become busier and busier but not freer and freer as a result.[有点别扭]
As I mentioned above, technology is able to improve life efficiency but it does not necessarily lead to relaxing the people. For this reason, I assert that the technological advancement, which has the initiate purpose of well-being of humans, should regard the satisfaction of all levels of people's needs,[我能看出来的别人都改了,呵呵,别人改的我不一定能看出来,后面也是] not only the increase of efficiency as its primary goal. The successful launch of first manned spacecraft of China, for instance, stands for the brilliant landmark of the human special exploration, have received widely coverage and attention over the world. Thousands and hundreds top advanced technologies are used in the project, and no one would probably deny their function of satisfy human needs of self-achievement just because they have no contribution to increase the efficiency of human life. Admittedly, most technological development serves to promote people's efficiency, yet this is far away from its primary and finally goal of all of people's needs.
To conclude, technological advancement indeed brings us high efficient life, but it cannot render more leisure time to people. Therefore, what is primary goal of technology is, and must be, to satisfy people's all kinds of needs, not only the basic ones of life and safety, but also these on higher level[加个s怎么样].
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