Innovation has always cost people their jobs, such as jobs of weavers in the Industrial Revolution and those who do mid-skill works in the digital revolution.
Research found that the prosperity following the digital revolution benefits owners of capital and the highest-skilled workers, at the cost of those lower in society. This widens income gaps.
The situation is getting worse, since it is suggested in a recent study that 47% of today's jobs could be automated in twenty years, including jobs without routine and repetitive tasks.
Optimistically, such job loss is a natural part of rising prosperity, because while innovation kills some jobs, it also creates new and better ones.
Governments can help people find new jobs through education. It has been proved in the past when workers' fortunes improved with the establishment of schools in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution.
Besides, schools should foster the creativity that humans have while computers don't. Technology itself will help in this. The state education system may also change, so that more money will be spent on pre-schooling to develop children's cognitive abilities and social skills, while adults can get the continuous education they need.
该题录音原文讨论的是创新对人的工作的冲击。原文一开始就点明了主题 Innovation has always cost people their jobs,其作为第一个要点应首先在摘要中表明。表 达时可以省略has always这两个词而将其写成Innovation costs people their jobs,甚至可以简单表达为Innovation costs jobs。其后的具体举例说明作为第一个次要点可以直接在 逗号后用 such as 来连接,表达为: such as jobs of weavers in the Industrial Revolution and those who do mid-skill works in the digital revolution.
第二个要点和次要点说的是人们对创新的负面影响的担忧,即创新可能会使一些 人受益而让另一些人受损,扩大社会等级差别和收入差异。这个意思可以简单总结为: Research found that the prosperity following the digital revolution benefits owners of capital and the highest-skilled workers, at the cost of those lower in society. This widens income gaps.
录音接下来的内容是进一步说明创新对人的工作的影响的程度,相对而言不如前 面的重要,但也可以作为第三个要点和次要点保留,简单表达为: The situation is getting worse, since it is suggested in a recent study that 47% of today’s jobs could be automated in twenty years, including jobs without routine and repetitive tasks.
再下来的内容说的是从乐观的态度而言创新与技术发展的好处,即有些工作不需要人做了,但也有一些新的工作机会产生。可以概括为:Optimistically, such job loss is a natural part of rising prosperity, because while innovation kills some jobs, it also creates new and better ones.
最后的录音内容提出了应对的办法,即政府通过教育体系发挥作用,同时需要的 教育也应该与时倶进,做出相应改变,从传统模式向适应新时代变化的模式迈进。这 层意思可以概括为: Governments can help people find new jobs through education. It has been proved in the past when workers' fortunes improved with the establishment of schools in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution.
Besides, schools should foster the creativity that humans have while computers don't. Technology itself will help in this. The state education system may also change, so that more money will be spent on pre-schooling to develop children’s cognitive abilities and social skills, while adults can get the continuous education they need.
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Innovation has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution, weavers were swept aside by the mechanical weaving machines. Over the past 30 years, the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that contributed to a large part of the 20th-century middle-class life, such as typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs.
Why should you be worried now? Research has found that the prosperity unleashed by the digital revolution has gone overwhelmingly to the owners of capital and the highest-skilled workers. That is to say, jobs most at risk are lower down the social ladder, whereas the skills that are least vulnerable to automation, such as creativity or managerial expertise, tend to be higher up. This means income gaps are likely to widen.
Worse, this wave of technological disruption to the job market is only starting. One recent study at Oxford University suggests that 47 percent of today’s jobs could be automated in the next two decades. Those jobs most vulnerable to machines include not only jobs that involve routine, repetitive tasks. Thanks to the exponential rise in processing power and information digitization, computers perform analytic tasks more cheaply and effectively than people. For instance, clever industrial robots can quickly "learn" to answer consumer requests at a call center. By comparing realms of financial or biometric data, computers can diagnose fraud or illness more accurately than any accountants or doctors.
Optimists say such job loss is a natural part of rising prosperity. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago, one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today less than 2 percent of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not consigned to joblessness, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has shrunk, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.
The main way in which governments can help their people through this dislocation is through education systems. Workers' fortunes improved in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution partly because schools were built to educate them 一 a dramatic change at the time.
Now schools themselves need to be changed to foster the creativity that humans will need to set them apart from computers. There should be less rote-learning and more critical thinking. Technology itself will help, whether through Massive Open Online Courses or even video games, which simulate the skills needed for work.
The state education system may also change. More money should be spent on pre-schooling, since the cognitive abilities and social skills that children learn in their first few years define much of their future potential. And adults will need continuous education. State education may well involve a year of study to be taken later in life, perhaps in stages.