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Unit 7 Communications (I)

Part I Warming up

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1. And British papers report the latest trend when you meet someone in a bar is to get their number, go home, and google them. Yes that gorgeous girl or guy you met the other night is probably patrolling a search engine right now to check you out. So don't even think of trying to tell them you're a famous footballer or brain surgeon or television presenter.

2. The jamming, earlier this month, of several popular Internet sites with a flood of crippling messages sent a wakeup call to those involved with electronic or e-commerce. One recent suggestion is to form an industry-wide group to share information about security issues. High-tech executives want to make a coordinated effort to ensure that the Internet becomes a safe place to conduct business.

3. Now home to some 800 million pages--a figure that's doubling each year- searching the Internet can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But Oslo-based Fast Search& Transfer (FAST) has developed a search engine ( alltheweb, com) capable of scanning more than 200 million pages. FAST is working on a mega-search engine that searches "all the web, all the time."

4. This week, the Intel corporation held its semi-annual Developer Forum in Palm Springs, California. The gathering draws more than 2,000 hardware and software developers from around the world. Intel executives opened the event with a demonstration of a high-speed chip, code-named "Williamette." The chip, designed to power personal computers, has a speed of one point five gigahertz, making it almost twice as fast as Intel's popular Pentium III chip which runs at 800 megahertz.

5. An online VCR seems like a bright idea but it's been quickly rendered non-functional by the copyright lawyers. Not for the first time, the Hollywood studios objected to re-transmitting network television shows, in this case for users to watch via the web. Programs were being made available for visitors to save remotely or record for subsequent viewing via Windows Media Player. B.

National Geographic:

n Helping choose the magazine's cover

n Interviewing the photographers

n Showing more pictures

n Providing zip U. S. A.

Hunger Site:

n Helping alleviate world hunger

n Donating contributions to the United Nations World Food Program each time an inpidual logs on to the site

n Total value of distributed food: approximately $400,000

Ask Jeeves Site:

n Asking questions in simple English

n Getting direct answers

n Starting year: 1997

n Questions dealt with so far: more than 150 million

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1. National Geographic, the magazine, has redesigned its website with some new features. Among them, an opportunity for readers to help choose the magazine's cover, interviews with National Geographic photographers, and lots and lots of pictures. More pictures in fact than there was room for in the print version. There's also Zip U. S. A., the feature you can find both online and in print. It's a focused look at one zip code in the U. S.

2. Now, there's a website created to help alleviate world hunger called the Hunger Site. Contributions, generated when computer users visit the site on the Worldwide Web, are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. "The beauty of the site is that when the web surfer clicks on, they don't pay a penny." This is Abby Spring, a World Food Program official. She says that funds to purchase the food come from corporate donors who make a financial contribution each time an inpidual logs on to Hungersite -- that's one word -- dot com. Abby spring says that so far, thanks to Hungersite dot com, the World Food Program has been able to distribute food valued at approximately $400,000.

3. The Ask Jeeves Site on the Internet is one of the most useful Internet sites for asking questions in simple English and getting direct answers. Ask most search engines a question these days and they will return a result which gives thousands of pages for you to search. The Ask Jeeves Site gives you half a dozen where you can find the exact answer. The Ask Jeeves Site owners say they have dealt with more than 150 million questions since Ask Jeeves was set up in 1997. Just this month, people were asking Jeeves the following questions: What are the latest scores for baseball? What is the address of the website for Coca-Cola? Where can I find a list of airfare travel bargains? Tell me the names of the top 20 universities and colleges in the U.S.

Part II The Internet

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1. Technology is moving from the desktop into our everyday life.

2. The Internet is the world's largest experimenting anarchy.

3. Some languages will disappear.

4. Economies are changing.

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A -- Anchor P -- Ned Potter S -- Specialist

A. We're gonna take a closer look tonight again at the future of the Internet. Not that we have anything but the vaguest idea where it's going in the long run. One of the truly fascinating and somewhat unsettling aspects of the Internet revolution is how many technologists and scientists say that the future may hold any number of surprises. So we're going to inch our way into the future.

P. At the Internet World Trade Show in New York, they see a future when the web is everywhere.

S1. Technology is moving from the desktop into our everyday life.

P. Imagine work, society, economics, relationships, all transformed, when anyone, anytime can get any message or knowledge or amusement they want, anywhere on the planet without so much as a wire.

S2. In many ways, the Internet is the world's largest experimenting anarchy, because all of a sudden, the citizens of the world are in charge, and no single government or governing body is in charge of what they do.

P. Keep in mind that the web, transmitting by satellites, cell phone, cable, goes through no one central location that anyone controls. So many of the boundaries that exist today, political and economic, will be strained as never before. Some scientists say three quarters of the world's languages will disappear as the net connects isolated places. Already English is what you find on most web pages, blending cultures, no matter how much people try to save them. Economies are changing too. As distance becomes meaningless, white-collar clerical, accounting or administrative jobs are being exported to Asia, just as blue-collar factory jobs were years ago.

S3: Imagine, there are 40 or 50 million Indians, not to mention the Chinese, who could deliver office work to the rich countries of the world for two dollars an hour.

P. So this massive web of information is both an asset and a threat, changing cultures, economies, governments, in ways no one can imagine or control.

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1. How many people use the Internet in the U. S. ? And what are the first three uses?

100 million, increasing daily by tens of thousands / email, chat, e-commerce 2. Are there people who are spending too much time online?

6% compulsively / millions / 6 - 9 hours a day

3. Have you seen anything like this before?

A new way / addiction

4. Can Internet shopping go too far?

Keep doing it / compulsive pattern

5. What's compelling about the Net?

Feeling closer/more quickly/time passes freely/anonymity/no end

6. How do people know when they've gone too far?

Alter mood on regular basis? / Interfering with life?

7. Is there a personality type that is more prone to compulsive use?

Don't know / tend to be younger / more addiction among people in technical field

8. What should people do if they use the Internet compulsively?

Limit amount of time / write down specific task / clock / limit access / monitor / beef up real-time relationships / go to store / log off

Tapescript.

I -- Interviewer G -- Dr David Greenfield

I: How many people use the Internet?

G: Close to 100 million in the United States. And that's increasing daily by tens of thousands. Email and chat are by far the No. 1 and No. 2 uses. E-commerce sites come in third.

I: Are there people who are spending too much time online?

G: Based on my research, about 6 percent of people online are using the Internet compulsively. Even if we've overestimated, we're talking millions. It's not that they just stay on for two hours. I'm talking about people losing jobs, having marital problems, experiencing a very significant negative impact on their lives. The average among the most compulsive group was upward of six to nine hours online a day.

I: Have you ever seen anything like this before?

G. This isn't a new disease. It's a new way of expressing the same disease: addiction. People get addicted to lots of things that are pleasurable and intense. The Internet gives you that hit, a temporary high feeling, just like exercise or drugs.

I. Can Internet shopping go too far?

G: All addictions are the same, regardless of the stimulus. You shop because you get a high. The problem is, it's so short-lived that you have to keep doing it. And that's where it can become a compulsive pattern.

I: What's compelling about the Net?

G: We don't know for sure. But people feel closer, more quickly to the people they communicate with online than in real life; time passes freely, and people like the anonymity. With every other communication medium- newspapers, magazines, TV shows --there is a beginning and an end. But online, there is always another link, another banner, another person to answer that question. I: So how do people know when they've gone too far?

G: There are two things to ask. Are they using the Internet to alter their mood on a regular basis? And, is it interfering with their life in any way?

I. Is there a personality type that is more prone to compulsive use?

G: I don't know if Internet addicts are different from drug addicts or gambling addicts. We do know that they tend to be younger and there is a slightly higher incidence of addiction among people in the technical field.

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