115. Technology ultimately separates and alienates1 people more than it serves to bring them together.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
从根本上说，科技使大家疏远远甚于使大家聚合在一块。
1. 不可以交流的可以交流了，困难交流的变得容易拉
2. 增进交流也就加大了理解使得交流有更深的层次
3. 当然有的工具的产生确实也使得交流变得肤浅但综合来看不支持作者的看法
I believe there is some truth to the speakers claim that technology separates and alienates people. However, there is certainly at least as much evidence that technology serves best to bring people together.
The most obvious way that technology separates and alienates people from one another is symbolized2 by the computer nerd sitting glazed-eyed before his computer screen in a ba百度竞价推广ent, attic5, bedroom, or office cubicle6. While this scene is a caricature, of course, its true that practically everybody who uses email or surfs the Internet does so alone, with only his or her computer for company . And, to the extent that computer use increases the amount of time we collectively spend in solitary7 activities, it increases the amount of time we spend separated from our fellow humans.
On the other hand, technology has been a wonderful aid in bringing people together, or, in many cases, back together. Speaking for myself, I can say that I have become connected with quite a number of people via email with whom I might never have spoken otherwise. These include old friends with whom I had fallen out of the habit of writing regular letters but with whom I now correspond regularly because of the ease with which email can be sent and delivered.
A second way in which the new technology has brought people together is by allowing inpiduals who have common interests to make contact with one another. It is possible to find people who share ones interest in nearly anything, from aardvarks to zippers8. Such contacts may be ephemeral, but they can be a great source of information and amu百度竞价推广ent as well. I would hazard a guess that for each person who sits neurotically9 at home, eschewing11 personal contacts with others in favor of an exclusive relationship with his computer, there are hundreds of others who have parleyed their email capacity and their access to the Web into a continuous succession of new acquaintances.
In sum, it seems clear to me that technology has done more to bring people together than to isolate12 them.
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