As we use what the sociologist Daniel Bell has called our “intellectual technologies”—the tools that extend our mental rather than our physical capacities—we inevitably begin to take on the qualities of those technologies. The mechanical clock, which came into common use in the 14th century, provides a compelling example. In Technics and Civilization, the historian and cultural critic Lewis Mumford described how the clock “disassociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences.” The “abstract framework of divided time” became “the point of reference for both action and thought.”
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So, as with earlier intellectual technologies, thenet strengthens certain cognitive functions but weakens others.
所以，同早期的智能技术一样，网络加强了人的某些认知功能但是削弱了其他功能。
The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies.
英特网是一个能量无限的计算系统，它包含于了我们大部分其他智能技术中。
The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.
与新型智能技术相适应的过程亦反映在我们解释自身的那些比喻当中。
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