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根据下面资料，回答题 The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturus and fragile recoveries. And yet, itwould be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the painful side of a boom and bustcycle. Certain jobs have gone away for good, outmoded by machines. Since technology has such aninsatiable appetite for eating up human jobs, this phenomenon will continue to restructure our economy in ways we can't immediately foresee.
When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were oncethought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened. This argument has attracted a lotof attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and AndrewMcAfee, who both hail from MIT's Center for Digital Business.
This is a powerful argument, and a scary one. And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pulland other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable totechnology in the first place.
Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U. S. that tend to be "tightly scripted" and "highlystandardized" ones that leave no room for "individual initiative or creativity. " In short, these are thetypes of jobs that machines can perform much better at than human beings. "That is how we have puta giant target sign on the backs of American workers, " Hagel says.
It's time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very20th century notion of work, Hagel says. In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever needpeople in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination "to respond to unexpected events". That's not something machines are good at. They are designed to perform very predictable activities.
As Hagel notes, Brynjolfsson and McAfee indeed touched on this point in their book. We need toreframe race against the machine as race with the machine. In other words, we need to look at theways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it. So then the problem is notreally about technology, but rather, "how do we innovate our institutions and our work practices?"
According to the first paragraph, economic downturns would_______. A．ease the competition of man vs. machine
A．ease the competition of man vs. machine
B．highlight machines' threat to human jobs
B．highlight machines' threat to human jobs
C．provoke a painful technological revolution
C．provoke a painful technological revolution
D．outmode our current economic structure
D．outmode our current economic structure
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