WhatcanScienceBring

　　ScienceisagreatEducationalway,SciencecanteachusmoreKnowledge.Sciencebringsustechs,SciencebringsusHappiness.SciencemakesusbreakorsurpassTradition,Sciencegetsoutofabstract,tothedefinition.SciencealsotellsusTruthandshouldn'tBelievesuperstitiondevilishly.Sciencestatesallresourcesofeverythinginworld.Inaddition,ScienceisasortofCivilizationaswell.Sciencehasuscreate.IBelieve,Sciencecanbringusmore,evenTimeMachinecanbeinventedviaittoo.

　　TechnologyIsChangingOurLives（Kaiser3344手写）

　　Theeffectoftechnologyinourday-to-daylifecanbeseenorfeltalmosteverywhere.Weusemobilephonesforcommunications,wesurftheInternetforinformation,knowledgeandentertainment,andwedriveourcarstoworkortakeflightstomakebusinesstravels.Weshallalwayshavefaithinourselves,becausemankindhasalmostunlimitedpotentialforcreationandself-improvement.

　　Throughtheyears,we'vewatchedtechnologygrowlikeachildbuddingintoadulthood:Itstartsoutmostlycryingandpooping,thencrawling,graduallylearningtowalk,andfinallyabletorunataspeedweallwishwecouldkeepupwith.We'veseentechnologyfail,andwe'veseenitsucceed.We'vepokedfunatitwhenitdoesn'tmakesense,andwe'vepraiseditwhenit'sabsolutelybrilliant.We'veyelledatitwhenitrunsoutofpower,andwe'vefixedorreplaceditwhenitgetsrundown.

　　Wetreattechnologyasafamilymember—evenifthatisalittleco-dependent.Youcan'tblameus,though;it'scertainlymadeaspectsofourliveseasier:We'renolongerforcedtosendlettersthroughthepostalservice,bookvacationsthroughtravelagents,shopinstores,visitthelibraryforresearchmaterial,orwaitforourphotostobedeveloped.Thankstotechnology,alloftheseactivitiescanbeperformedeitherdigitallyoronline.

　　Atthesametime,though,technologycanmakelifemoreconvoluted—especiallywhensomethingdoesn'tworkrightordoesn'tdowhatit'ssupposedto:Say,forinstance,aGPSdevicetellsyoutoturnthewrongwayonaone-waystreet(yikes!),oracomputererasesallofyourimportantdata(ouch!).

　　Unfortunately,it'snotalwayseasytounderstandhowaproductorserviceworks,nottomentionwhetherornottoholdoffonadoptingituntilabetter,shinierthingcomesalong.Aperfectexampleistheever-evolvingvideoformat.We'vegonefromBetamaxtoVHStoDVDtoHDDVD/Blu-raytojustBlu-ray(andeverythingin-between,ofcourse).Itcantakeyearsbeforeatechnologycatcheson,andevenmoretimebeforeweseeasignificantpricedrop.

　　Forthemostpart,however,technologydoesusmoregoodthanharm:It'sreconnecteduswitholdcollegeroommates,helpeduslearnaforeignlanguage,andencouragedustoexercise.Followusaswelookbackathowtechnologyhaschangedourlives—forthebetterandfortheworse—intermsofcommunication,computing,dining,entertainment,andtravel.

　　这些年来,我们注视着科技像一个小孩一样慢慢成长为一个成年人:一开始,它又哭又闹,然后它可以爬行,逐渐学习行走,最后能以一个我们希望能跟得

　　上的速度去奔跑.我们曾经看到过它失败,我们也曾经看到过它成功.我们曾经在它没有意义的时候取笑过它,也曾经在它大放异彩的时候称赞过它.我

　　们曾经在它筋疲力尽的时候对它大声吼叫,也曾经在它停步不前的时候修理或者取代它.

　　我们对待科技就像是我们家庭中的一员----即使它只有微薄之力.请别责怪我们,它只是让我们的某些生活方面变得更加容易一些.我们无须再费神的去

　　邮局寄信,去旅行社算帐,去商店购物,去图书馆查资料,或者等待我们的照片冲印出来.感谢技术,所有的这些事情都可以数字化或者在线解决.

　　但是同时,科技却又可能让我们的生活更加麻烦