Here’s my simple test for a product of
today’s technology: I go to the bookstore and check the shelves for remedial
books. The more books, the more my suspicions are raised. If
computers and computer programs supposedly are getting easier to use, why are so
many companies still making a nice living publishing books on how to use
them Computers manipulate information, but information is invisible. There’s nothing to see or touch. The programmer decides what you see on the screen. Computers don’t have knobs like old radios. They don’t have buttons, not real buttons. Instead, more and more programs display pictures of buttons, moving even further into abstraction and arbitrariness. I like computers, but I hope they will disappear, that they will seem as strange to our descendents as the technologies of our grandparents appear to us. Today’s computers are A. computers should be designed to adjust to the needs of human beings B. errors result in people’s conformity to computer’s unnatural behavior C. computers should imitate human’s ability to observe, communicate and innovate D. tomorrow’s computers will shorten the distance for people’s communication [单项选择]Here’s my simple test for a product of today’s technology: I go to the bookstore and check the shelves for remedial books. The more books, the more my suspicions are raised. If computers and computer programs supposedly are getting easier to use, why are so many companies still making a nice living publishing books on how to use them
Computers manipulate information, but information is invisible. There’s nothing to see or touch. The programmer decides what you see on the screen. Computers don’t have knobs like old radios. They don’t have buttons, not real buttons. Instead, more and more programs display pictures of buttons, moving even further into abstraction and arbitrariness. I like computers, but I hope they will disappear, that they will seem as strange to our descendents as the technologies of our grandparents appear to us. Today’s computers are indeed getting easier to use, but look where they started: so difficult that almost any improvement was welcome. Computers hav A. very few companies are publishing such books B. more and more people are learning computers C. computers and computer programs are not easy to learn D. books on how to use computers can be sold at a high price 我来回答: 提交
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