中英對照 | Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter? 智能手機讓你我更有智慧...

Have our phones hijacked our minds?

手機控制我們了嗎？

It feels as if smartphones have been around forever. But the first iPhone only came out in 2007, just eleven years ago. In those eleven short years, phones have become a major part of our lives.They have become so entrenched in society that many people are lost without them.

感覺上，智能手機好像已經存在很久了。但是，蘋果的第一部iPhone卻是在2007年才問世，也不過是11年前而已。短短的11年間，手機已經變成我們生活中一個非常重要的部分。手機的影響已經在社會組織中根深蒂固，以至於很多人一離開手機就茫然若失。

Technology developers such as Google would like us to integratesmartphones into all parts of our daily lives. Through the ready accessof information, the goal is to amplify human intelligence. With mobile devices, we can use digital assistants like Siri to answer questions without even typing a word.

谷歌等科技開發公司無不希望大眾能將智能手機融入日常生活的每個部分。通過信息的隨時讀取，他們的目標即是希望擴增人類的智能。有了移動裝置，我們一個字也不用打，便可以使用像Siri這樣的虛擬助理來回答問題。

We are now in an age when many people can』t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one –nomophobia.This is the powerful feeling people get when they don』t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from their phone. This fear of missing outon important information or connections can have a controlling effect on ourlives. And it can divide our attention from other important things, such as learning.

如今我們處在一個多數人無法想像沒有手機要怎麼過日子的年代。甚至還有一個名詞來形容身邊沒有手機便產生焦慮的狀態——無手機焦慮症。意指當手機接收不到信號、手機快沒電或是和手機分開時，人們所感受到的強大情緒波動。這種害怕錯過重要信息或人際關係的恐懼可能最終會控制並影響我們的生活。此外，它也可能會瓜分掉我們對學習等其他重要事物的注意力。

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