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1、uwhats the big idea?1. Nokia sponsors a wide range of educational,cultural and other activities.one of the most unusual activities was the sponsoring of Future Histories,a collection of stories by prominent writer of science fiction. Why should a telecommunications company become involved with liter
2、ature? It could be calledresearch.你这是什么意思?(你想干什么？)1。诺基亚赞助商范围广泛的教育、文化和其他活动。其中一个最不寻常的活动是赞助的“未来的历史”,是从一位著名的科幻小说家的小说里收集的故事。为什么一个电信公司能让文学参与进来? 它可以被称为“研究”。2.science and literature have traditionally been hostile to each other.Writers have regarded scientists as dull creatures who take pleasure in destroyi
3、ng great works of the imagination with boring facts.Scientists have thought of writers as frivolous people with on respect for the rules of evidence.At the heart of their mutual suspicion is the question of who owns the truth.Does something become real when it is imagined or when it is physically cr
4、eated? 2。科学和文学传统上一直敌视对方。作家认为科学家是沉闷的生物它乐于摧毁具有想象力与枯燥事实相结合的伟大作品。科学家们认为作家是在尊重证据规则方面是轻浮无聊的人。在他们内心相互猜疑的问题是谁拥有真理。他们有时候会变得真实当做了一些设想成为现实时,或者当它身体创造出来的?3.science fiction is the one area where these two opposing groups have met and exchanged ideas. as its name suggests,science fiction is literature which predic
5、ts the technology of the future and the effect this will have on human society .Over the years,many of their speculations have been remarkably accurate.Space travel,communications satellites,nuclear power,robotics,cloning and mobile telephony have all appeared in books before they appeared in realit
6、y. 3。科幻小说是一个领域这两个对立的群体认识和交流意见。正如它的名字所暗示的,科幻小说是文学,并预言了未来的技术和效果这将对人类社会。多年来,他们的许多猜测一直非常准确。太空旅行、通信卫星、核电、机器人技术、克隆和移动电话都出现在书籍之前,他们出现在现实。 4.yet sometimes the writers have got it wrong.Nobody predicted the emergence of personal computers,for instance.And contact with alien beings from other planets still se
7、ems a long way off,despite being a common subject of science fiction. 4。然而有时候,作家都弄错了。没有人预测个人电脑的出现,例如（就像）。和接触外星人来自其它行星让然似乎还很遥远,尽管这是在科幻小说里一个常见的题。5. over the year ,the time between the prediction of new techonlogy in sciece fiction and its actual discovery has become shorter.It took 100year before the
8、moon landings predicted by the French writer Jules Verne actually took place.The idea of robots first emerged in the 1920s.The first robots were built in the 1940s,Arthur C.Clarke predicted that communications satellites would circle the globe by the year 2000.These arrived 30 years before they were
9、 due.5。过去一年,之间的时间预测的新技术在文理科小说和实际发现已经变得更短。它花了100年登月之前预测的法国作家儒勒凡尔纳的确发生了。机器人的概念第一次出现在1920年代。第一个机器人被建于1940年代,阿瑟C。克拉克预测,全球通信卫星可以绕到2000年。早在他们*的30年前就已经到达。6.Richard Dwakins,a British scientist,recetly stated that scientific discovery revealed the beauty and complexity of nature in a way that the human imagi
10、nation could never do.6。理查德Dwakins,英国科学家最近指出,科学发现揭示了大自然的美和复杂性,人类的想象力永远不能做。7. yet this is not the end of the road for science fiction.Many of the developments it has predicted are used for communication and we are now in what is called the information age.Over one third of the population in the Weste
11、rn world are employed in the information technology industries .World leaders call for the establishment of knowledge-based societies.And the people who have to do the work complain of information overload.7。但这并不是科幻小说的尽头。许多发展它预测用于通信和我们现在在所谓的“信息时代”。在西方世界超过三分之一的人口被录用在信息技术产业。世界各国领导人呼吁建立“知识为基础的社会”。必须做这工作的那些人抱怨“信息过载”。在所有这些当中,有一个真正的需要与人的视觉。在所有这些当中,有一个真正的需要与人的视觉。未来的商务沟通取决于能够想象新现实,然后人们为他们的产品和服务。在“未来的历史”,一个故事讲述一种投资者不断旅行去寻找新的机会在高技术。他支持一个公司生产的智能机器人,能够学习新任务从他们的环境。有一天,他注意到机器人已经停止工作。最后,他意识到他们问自己一个问题,从未想到他。为什么我们要这样做?作家在信息时代已经从预测未来的科学发现。现在他们推测的效果对人类社会交流的革命。在一个词由业务和技术,还有一个重要的角色是扮演的人谁能回答这个问题
