comprehensive summary of Attached to Technology and Paying a Price

Comprehensive summary of Attached to Technology and

Paying a Price

As the technology becomes a requisite part of our life, we are thoroughly influenced by it. In the essay “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price”, Matt Richtel asserts that overuse of technology has greatly influenced people’s life. He mainly claims that technology is changing people’s thinking and behavior. The burst of information and consumption of media keep people multitasking and lead to troubles both in family and work.

To start with, Richtel mainly narrates an account of Kord Cambell and his family which are greatly influenced by the technology. This example describes the phenomenon that to juggle with the burst of information, people tend to become multitaskers. People keep being online at any time and they “have trouble putting down their devices”. Generally speaking, they need to send and response e-mails, answer other’s phone calls and collect incoming information. As a result, people’s ability to focus undermined. Richtel maintains that “the resulting distractions can inflict nicks and cuts on creativity and deep thought, interrupting work and family life. Though people being affected seriously, it is hard to live without those stimulations. Mrs.Cambell have tried to suppress it but failed.

More over, Richtel also cites surveys of scientists and conclusions scientists have made to validate his point. By saying “scientists are discovering that even after the multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of focus persists”, Richtel proves that the heavy use of the technology leaves on us is perennial and it is difficult to be eliminated. More importantly, researchers worry that constant digital stimulation creates attention problems for children, whose brains are still developing.

After that, Richtel shows the multitasking’s bad influence on people’s work, children’s life and the family harmony. The people who are addicted to the “information juggling” could never focused on their jobs, which means they will scan their monitors every now and then while working. As to the children, the video games make them crazy and the Facebook and texts keep them obsessed. What’s more, the technology also makes our family life much worse. The immediate impact is that it become a very hard job for most family to have a happy and easy vocations. They suddenly find it an impossible task to get together and enjoy happiness with their relatives, because the video games has such a strong power to pull them away.

To sum up, Richtel argues that as we use technology more and more frequently, we are badly affected by the overuse of it. It can be inferred from the article that people should try to balance the use of technology and their family and daily life.

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E. 写摘要时可以采用下列几种小技巧： 1) 删除细节。只保留主要观点。 2) 选择一至两个例子。原文中可能包括5个或更多的例子，你只需从中筛选一至二个例子。 3) 把长段的描述变成短小、简单的句子。如果材料中描述某人或某事用了十个句子，那么你只要把它们变成一两句即可。 4) 避免重复。在原文中，为了强调某个主题，可能会重复论证说明。但是这在摘要中是不能使用的。应该删除那些突出强调的重述句。 5) 压缩长的句子。如下列两例： “His courage in battle might without exaggeration be called lion-like.” 可以概括为：”He was very brave in battle.” “He was hard up for money and was being pressed by his creditor.” 可以概括为：“He was in financial difficulties.” 6) 你还可以使用词组代替整句或者从句。请看下面的例子：“Beautiful mountains like Mount Tai, Lushan Mountain, and Mount Huang, were visited by only a few people in the past. Today, better wages, holidays with pay, new hotels on these mountains, and better train and bus services, have brought them within reach of many who never thought of visiting them ten years ago.” 2 / 19

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Old Father Time Becomes a Terror Richard Tomkins 1 Once upon a time, technology, we thought, would make our lives easier. Machines were expected to do our work for us, leaving us with ever-increasing quantities of time to waste away on idleness and pleasure. 时间老人成了可怕的老人 理查德·汤姆金斯 从前，我们以为技术发展会使我们的生活变得更安逸。那时我们觉得机器会替代我们工作，我们则有越来越多的时间休闲娱乐。 2 But instead of liberating us, technology has enslaved us. Innovations are occurring at a bewildering rate: as many now arrive in a year as once arrived in a millennium. And as each invention arrives, it eats further into our time. 但技术发展没有把我们解放出来，而是使我们成为奴隶。新技术纷至沓来，令人目不暇接：一年涌现的技术创新相当于以前一千年。而每一项新发明问世，就进一步吞噬我们的光阴。 3 The motorcar, for example, promised unimaginable levels of personal mobility. But now, traffic in cities moves more slowly than it did in the days of the horse-drawn carriage, and we waste our lives stuck in traffic jams. 比如，汽车曾使我们希望个人出行会方便得让人难以想象。可如今，城市车辆运行得比马车时代还要慢，我们因交通堵塞而困在车内，徒然浪费生命。 4 The aircraft promised new horizons, too. The trouble is, it delivered them. Its very existence created a demand for time-consuming journeys that we would never previously have dreamed of undertaking -- the transatlantic shopping expedition, for example, or the trip to a convention on the other side of the world. 飞机也曾有可能为我们拓展新天地。问题是，飞机提供了新的天地。其存在本身产生了对耗时的长途旅行的需求，这种旅行，如越洋购物，或远道前往地球的另一半参加会议，以前我们是根本无法想象的。 5 In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines promised to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they encouraged us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been replaced by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. 在大多数情况下，技术发展并未节省时间，而是使我们得以做更多的事。在家里，洗衣机可望使妇女摆脱繁重的洗衣劳作。但事实上，它们促使我们每天，而不是每星期换一次衣服，这就使熨洗衣物的工作量变成原来的7倍。同样地，每周一次的沐浴为每日一次的淋浴所代替，使得用于个人穿着打扮的时间大大增加。 6 Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time -- the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome -- but added the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the opportunity to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless information from the Internet. 与此同时，技术发展不仅听任工作侵入我们的闲暇时间――带着便携式电脑去海滩综合