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1、Unit 1 Technology in Reverse Let me introduce you retarded technology. It’s the opposite of advanced technology. Advanced technology enables us to do useful new things or to do old things more efficiently. By contrast, retarded technology creates new and expen
2、sive ways of doing things that were once done simply and inexpensively. Worse, it encourages us to do things that don’t need doing at all. It has made waste respectable, elaborate alluring and even fun. 1.让我给你介绍落后科技。它是先进科技的对立面。先进的科技让我们更有效地利用新事物或是旧事物。相反，落后科技则会使
3、那些本来简单快捷的做事方式变成新和浪费。更糟糕的是，它会鼓励我们做那些不需要的事，使浪费变得可敬，值得做，诱人，甚至是有趣。 Just the other week, NEWSWEEK reported a boom in electronic books. The idea is to put books onto discs that you can plug into your customized book-displaying computer. Here's a swell idea of retar
4、ded technology. On the one hand, you can buy a $900 or $9,000 book-reading computer that you can feed with $20 discs of your favorite books. It's cumbersome. If you take it to the beach, it gets clogged with sand. You can't use it as a pillow. If it slips off
5、the kitchen counter, it smashes. 2.几个星期前，新闻周刊报道了电子书的一个爆炸新闻。这个创意是你可以把书装在可以接通你电子书电脑的光盘上。这是落后科技的极佳创意。一方面，你得买个价值900美元或900美元的，可以装满20本你最喜欢阅读书的书本阅读电脑。这很繁琐。如果你带它去沙滩，它可能会摔在地上。你不能把当做枕头去用。如果在厨房柜台上滑倒，还会打碎。 On the other hand, you can buy an old-fashioned book. It's cheape
6、r, more mobile, less fragile and more durable. You can lend it, even to casual friends. If you don't like it, you can stop reading without hating yourself for ever buying it. Losing it is not a traumatizing event. 3.另一方面，你可以买本旧书。它会便宜，更方便，不容易碎，还很耐用。你可以借出去，甚至是
7、陌生人。如果你不喜欢它，可以不去考虑你曾经买了它而恨自己去不读。弄丢了，也不是件多么伤心的事。 The pro-technology comeback is that computers will someday compress entire libraries onto chips or discs and, thereby, open vast vistas of information to almost anyone. The trouble with this is arithmetic and c
8、ommon sense. A school library with 2,000 books can theoretically serve 2,000 readers simultaneously. A school library with one computer terminal that can call up 200,000 books can
