2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.17(1)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.17(1)

　　Twenty-five years after its invention, billions of people now use the World Wide Web. But James Hendler of the Rensselaer Institute says only a small part of the webs potential has been realized.

　　Here is this force that has really changed society in so many different ways. We understand sort of the mathematics of the computer network underneath it and the engineering of that, but we really dont understand the social impact. Theres more and more research thats starting to study what are those different effects? How do they affect society? How do we build the web and keep the web open and free? How do we really understand the impacts of this thing we call the World Wide Web?

　　Tim Berners-Lee went on to create the World Wide Web Foundation. The group says in its mission statement that it wants to establish the open web as a global public good and basic right.

　　Lets Look into the Future

　　O.K. We think we understand the Internet as it is today, but how might technology influence our lives 10 years from now? A new report has combined the imaginings, or opinions, of about 1,500 experts. The report was a project of the Pew Research Center and Elon University in the United States. Mario Ritter joins us with that part of the story.

　　Elon University Professor Janna Anderson was one of the lead writers of the report. She says the experts generally agreed on the kinds of changes that would take place. But she says their ideas were very different when they described how those changes would influence Internet users.