Issue151 【天下无G askme习作】第5次作业 超时了 字数还可以

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TOPIC: ISSUE151 - "High-speed electronic communications media, such as electronic mail and television, tend to prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication."
WORDS: 633         TIME: 1:00:00          DATE: 2007-2-1

In this era of rapid social and technological change, innumerous inventions of telecommunication and information have come into being, such as telephone, computer, the internet, and television. To a certain extend, these inventions have greatly shaped our world and thus give rise to a controversy: whether such inventions tend to prevent meaningful and thoughtful communication. In my opinion, in some cases, they indeed exert negative influence on deep communication; however, they also play indispensable roles in accelerating our communication.

These high-speed electronic communications media impede in meaningful and thoughtful communication by a multitude of means, especially by placing limits on period of communication. For supporting examples, one needs look no further than junk mails. A recent survey points out that more than 2.1 billion junk mails are sent out everyday, which means thousands of junk mails might rush into one's mailbox per second. Not only do junk mails waste source of the internet, but also they dreadfully reduce our effective time that can be spent on reading important mails, helpful to deep communication. In addition, the burgeoning number of televisions and their advertisements also do harm to communication, since we can image that all members of a family sit in front of the television, silent and dull. Before the invention of television, family members preferred to stay together to tell each other what happens to themselves and the old imparted their experience to the youth, and such activities often bringing laughter and happiness as well as thoughtful communication have gone forever as the development of media. These examples are used to point out that high-speed electronic communications media makes people spend less time on important things and persons, some significant sources of deep communication. In other words, hardly do people have opportunity to further their communication.

However, these media precipitate our communication instead of preventing it, if we make proper use of them. We can ameliorate our communication with the help of the convenient method to gain adequate information. For instance, the internet bridges our gap and distance between countries, and thus we can seek information as needed in another country through the internet and exchange our ideas with a foreigner thousands of miles away. What's more, thanks to televisions, we can keep up with fads all over the world and gain an insight into what happens elsewhere. After exchanging different facts and debating over varieties of ideologies with different people, we can generalize from them what is most essential and vital for humans, and be a better pilot of our lives. As a result, all these techniques above provide different perspectives to us and play significant roles in communication of culture, which always brings about deep communication.

Finally, these media enrich our methods to communicate and it might also leads to thoughtful communication. In the past, the major way of communication is by means of speech and books, which supports thousands of raconteurs and writers. We can only gain knowledge about history from our grandparents and books passed from generation to generation. However, nowadays, we can gain the information through videos, recordings, and pictures, and thus get a whole perspective on the events of history vividly. What’s more, it is highly possible that we can learn abstracted but thoughtful subjects like philosophy with videos someday. In this case, we have more choice and interest in gaining knowledge, and it is helpful for one to pursue deep ‘talking’ with the early literati in history. In short, we might be more interested in thoughtful communication and eventually benefit from these media.

To sum up, without making best of these media, not only do we waste opportunities for meaningful and thoughtful communication, but also we place an obstacle in communication. To better benefit from them, we should spare no effort to take advantage of their vividness and directness, and rectify their shortcomings.

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整体结构不错...观点很清晰. 段内还可以再加强一点..