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请帮忙改一下吧,我现在只查了科技类的,留下科技类的一定回改.谢谢
The primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people’s efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time.(30)
The author contends that the primary goal of technological advancement should be to increase people’s efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time. I agree insofar as the advancement in technology in deed significantly improved people’s efficiency. However, when it comes to that the primary goal of technological advancement should be increase people’s efficiency the speakers begs the question, by overlooking the fact that efficiency is just one link in the whole process of people’s survive.
As we have witnessed, achievement in technology has immensely improved people’s efficiency, such as farm machinery, assembly-line, Computer. For instance, household appliances eliminated much of the labor of everyday tasks, including vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, and dryers, food processors, before these inventions families have to sweeping with brooms, scrubbing clothes with wash boards, cutting cloth and stitching their own dresses and shirts, all by hand, chores often took a long time. By contrast, with the benefit of such easy operate and efficient inventions, only a short few hours needed to do chores. As a book indicates: “At the beginning of the 20th century it took a large team of farmers and field hands weeks to plant and harvest one crop, and it took four farmers to feed 10 people. Today, machinery allows the entire Midwestern corn crop to be planted in 10 days and harvested in 20; and one U.S farmer can produce enough food to feed 97 Americans and 32 people in other countries. ” All these evidence demonstrated that drudgery was fast giving way to freedom.
However, before people can savor the relative more leisure time brought by improved efficiency, they have already immersed in the ever increasing work load also cast by this improved efficiency. First, to keeping pace with technology people must pay much more attention and especially leisure time to learn how to use the new technology. For instance, how can a man live without necessary knowledge about using computer while the computer had become an integral part of every major industry and even social life? This knowledge inevitably require much leisure time. Secondly, under fierce competitive environment, people must keep up to date, gather large numbers of information, analysis, percolate important ones from those needing only a glance, all need much more work time probably most of their spare time so as not to be knocked out of the game. Which, of cause, are caused by technology.
Also the primary goal of technological advancement is not to increase people’s efficiency so that everyone has more leisure time. As a matter of fact, technology is just a tool which used to help people to survive, the earliest known human artifacts are roughly flaked stones, people used the sharp edges of stone to process food, , then pear-shaped axes, scrapers, knives, all of which aimed at make the environment and living conditions more friendly, the same is contemporary technology, as we all know, the excess of revenues over expenses is the profit, under fierce competition, to reduce expenses and produce more products the only way people can do is to improve efficiency, so that they get more advantages to survive, thus came the assembly-line, computer, farm machine, instant communication system, while society’s efficiency increased, some may search other ways to make further technological advances which breed still greater efficiency and, in turn, whole society’s progress. As we can see, increased efficiency is just a link during the whole process, while the primary goal is survive.
To sum up, although the statement has some merit when it comes to the technological advancement’s effect on people’s efficiency, the author fails to determine the genuine goal of technology advancement. |
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