And while we have created every kind oflabor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feellike we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. Thatis because the great proliferation of labor-and-time-saving services onlyincreases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us. Forexample, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spendingmuch of our day frantically responding to each others electronic messages. Thecell phone is a great time-saver,Except now we are always potentially in reachof someone else who wants our attention.
Social conservatives talk about the declinein civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values.Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyper speed culture is making all of usless patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect?
Maybe we need to ask what kinds ofconnections really count and what types of access really matter in thee-economy era. ff this new technology revolution is only about hyperefficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than time--our sense ofwhat it means to be a caring human being.
1. According to the passage, corporateexecutives think that
A. technologyrenaissance should be pushed forward.
B. technology has aprofound impact on their lives.
C. technologyactually results in a decline in their life quality.
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