GRE Issue高频提纲——科技类(一)

　　1. 科技的影响：

　　Contemporary technology makes available many small pieces of factual information. As a result, people have become so preoccupied with bits of fragmented information that they pay too little attention to the larger issues and overall perspectives.

　　Technologies not only influence but actually determine social customs and ethics.

　　 Humanity has made little real progress over the past century or so. Technological innovations have taken place, but the overall condition of humanity is no better. War, violence, and poverty are still with us. Technology cannot change the condition of humanity.

　　 While most of the environmental problems we face result from the use of technology, society must depend upon technology to find solutions to these problems.

　　 Over the past century, the most significant contribution of technology has been to make peoples lives more comfortable.

　　 Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life.

　　 Now that computer technology has made possible the rapid accessing of large amounts of factual information, people are less likely than ever to think deeply or originally. They feel unable to compete with -- much less contribute to -- the quantity of information that is now available electronically.

　　Computers and video technology can make facsimiles of original works such as paintings and historical documents available to everyone. The great advantage of this new technology is that it will enable anyonenot just scholarsto conduct in-depth research without having access to the original works.

　　 The video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become a more important form of documentation than written records.

　　 As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.

　　 Instant foods, instant communication, faster transportation-all of the se recent developments are designed to save time. Ironically, though, instead of making more leisure time available, these developments have contributed to a pace of human affairs that is more rushed and more frantic than ever before.