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my view, 仅供参考^_^,其实这篇文章已经很不错了哦
Issue30. The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time.
In modern world, technology has significantly affected people's living styles as well as the whole society. The speaker claims that, the primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people's efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time. However, so far to my concern, the primary goal of technological advancement should be to satisfy human needs, which is also the motive to develop technology.
Looking back on the history, it is the human needs, including both material and spirits needs that motivate people to make significant inventions and progress. Material demand is directly and concretely expressed by the market. From economic knowledge, we learn that marketing actors, from private operator to multinational corporations, consider making profit as much as possible to be their ultimate goal. By updating the technology and creating new equipments, they can vastly increase their efficiency and save a lot of cost so as to guarantee that their products will beat the competitors’ and occupy a large proportion in the market. The spinning machine was invented by a girl Jean, who expected to produce more cotton than other producers at average time. And the following Industrial Revolution also came forth on the purpose of adapting the expanding productivity. (说明了技术进步是为了满足生产者追求利润最大化的需要,可是利润最大化就等于满足物质需求吗?我觉得物质需求的满足不仅是生产者方面的,还有消费者方面的)At the same time, to meet people's spirits needs, meaning the curiosity and interests in unexplored fields, is also the primary goal and motive of technological advancement. For [U]instant(instance)[/U] , if the phenomenon that water steam could lift a jug cover up did not attracted [U]Newton(不是牛顿是瓦特吧)[/U] 's attention so deeply, he would probably not invent the steamer, which spurred another significant industrial revolution; if brother White were not as eager as to know the reason why people could not fly, perhaps the airplane, which was a landmark in transportation improvement, would not appear. These innovations, to some extent, are all created on the purpose to satisfy people's desire on unknown knowledge and rules. Fundamentally, the primary goal of technological advancement should be to appease people's progressively demands.(再说一下人类需求可以推动技术进步会不会更好一点?)
Although the progress of technology reacts on increasing people’s efficiency, it does not necessarily endow people with more leisure time. Every advance of technology seems to more or less liberate people from laborious work. But in the whole process, people are always tired because of the complicated situation caused by technological development. When new methods and equipments are popularized immediately, people are not content with their current efficiency in that these equipments cannot bring them enough profit any longer, and then they involve themselves to the next advancement of technology, which will make them busier and busier. Turning around to observe modern people, we can discover that almost everyone is wearing a tired face and keeping a tense mentality. Under no circumstance will people enjoy more leisure time unless they are not yearning to pursue their desires.
To sum up, it clearly follows that satisfying human needs is a primary and permanent goal in the advancement of technology, whose influence is the enhancement of efficiency as well as the busyness of people. I strongly feel that by ameliorating the equipment and technology, people are losing more leisure time in terms of succeeding in the fierce competition, money making, job security and so forth.
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