杨吴秀吉:南京工业大学选手,第17届21世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛三等奖获得者。
选手简介:
姓名:杨吴秀吉
简介:南京工业大学国际教育学院电子信息专业大二学生
乐观开朗热爱英语对于西方文化有着浓厚的探索兴趣
参赛经历:第十七届21世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛江苏省决赛亚军
演讲稿:
What is the role of humanism of today’s world of technology? I have three words in my heart: Director, Actor and Audience.
On the assumption that the world of technology is a film, then, I think, humanism first plays as a director.
Director is the soul of a film. It determines the style and gives the film its own spirit. Likewise, human is always the leader of technology. It is human that decides where the technology is going and it is human that controls it. Once a technology is out of control, it is a disaster instead. Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents all show that technology must be carefully developed by human beings. Biochemical weapon researches are gradually abandoned because we know that these kinds of technology are not directed by people’s pursuit of happiness but only antihuman means in war. Technology should serve the human beings and humanism is always the director. More precisely speaking, it is what people want that directs the technology.
Humanism can also be an actor! Superstars are always the biggest selling point of a film. Similarly, humanism is sometimes the most attractive spirit of a new technology product. Take mobile phone industry as an example: Consumers are having more attention focused on whether the smart phone they buy is easy to use, rather than the number of high tech breakthroughs the phone has. And that word easy is exactly one way how humanism spirit is shown in the today’s world of advanced technology. User friendly devices are always extremely popular because they aim at people and their feelings. And the humanism spirit inside the technology is just like a superstar ready to show the whole world its excellent performing skills. So, I think, humanism is the actor, it acts the technology out.
Directors and actors are important of course, but what matters the most to a film is, I think, its audience. What the audience feels about the movie determines its popularity. In the show of technology, we human beings are always waiting for the climax and we never stop wondering what is coming next. Most important of all, we are the final judge on whether a new technology is good or not. That is to say, technology for the well-being of human is the most eye-catching one, because it shows respect for its audience.
Ladies and gentlemen, technology cannot walk alone. It is not the orphan given birth in the lab. No matter how advanced the world of technology is, it is associated with the mixture of human’s culture, values and sometimes human itself. And we call that mixture Humanism.
So I want to say:
Humanism is the director, because human leads the way.
Humanism is the actor, because it acts out the brightest side of technology.
Humanism is the audience, because we have the final rights to judge.
And I do wish that, technology of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Thank you.