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本篇阅读材料TED的绝妙创意关闭科技选自《时代》(原文标题：The Surprising Big Idea at TED： Turn Off Technology 2012.3.6)。如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作英语四级阅读泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步 Its a TED tradition： when the stage lights go up at the beginning of a talk， the little gadgets go awayiPhones， iPads， and Blackberries all have to be powered down， even by the tech big wigs who were in attendance， including Amazons Jeff Bezos， Linked Ins Reed Hoffman， and Googles Marissa Mayer. Fully listen without technological distraction. Though it sounds simple， it was the most radical message being spread at TED 2012. A surprising number of this years wide variety of speakers seemed to be joining one another in a resounding chorus， a call really， for a renaissance in technological discernment. Technology is powerful， the thinking went， but it actually disempowers us when we use it addictively and indiscriminately. And further， what really matters is the ways in which our technological advancements allow us to connect more deeply and widely with real human beings. The leader of the pack was definitely MIT professor and author of Alone Together， Sherry Turkle. She described the bleak reality many of us live in， by which we stare into our screensbig and smallwhile our sensual， visceral lives pass us by. Our very emotional cores， she explains， are being altered by our inability to disconnect from the digital world. But its not too late， according to Turkle： We grew up with digital technology so we see it as all grown up. Its not. In other words， we still have time to develop our capacity to be discerning when it comes to those glowing screens. | 
