Вопрос № 223126 - Английский язык

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A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing for addicts of the Internet. Information is becoming the drug of the new century.
The research, conducted among 1000 managers in Britain, America, Europe and the Far East shows that, as information sources such as the Internet and cable news channels proliferate, we are witnessing the rise of a generation of dataholics.
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What are people who use the Internet a lot called?

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The World Wide Web (WWW) is a part of the Internet. But it’s not a collection of networks. Rather, it is information that is connected or linked together like a web. You access this information through one interface or tool called a Web browser. The number of resources and services that are part of the World Wide Web is growing extremely fast. In 1996 there were more than 20 million users of the WWW, and more than half the information that is transferred across the Internet is accessed through the WWW. By using a computer terminal (hardware) connected to a network that is a part of the Internet, and by using a program (software) to browse or retrieve information that is a part of the World Wide Web, the people connected to the Internet and World Wide Web through the local providers have access to a variety of information.

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The quest for information can lead to stress. Almost two-thirds said their leisure time had been curtailed as a result of having to work late to cope with vast amounts of information; 70 percent reported loss of job satisfaction and tension with colleagues because of information overload.
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Why do you have to spend much leisure time to find the information you need?

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The study investigated the habits of the children of 300 managers and found 55 per cent of parents were concerned their children would become information junkies.
Forty-six per cent of parents believed their children spent more time on their PCs than interacting with friends. In one case a child had to be wheeled with his computer to the dinner table.
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Why were the parents so concerned?

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Health questions have been raised by the people who sit all day in front of the video display terminals (VDTs) of their computers. Are computer users getting bad radiation? What about eyestrain? And what about the age-old back problem, updated with new concerns about workers who hold their hands over a keyboard? What about repetitive-action injury also known as carpal tunnel syndrome? What about the risk of miscarriage?
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Who often asks questions about health?

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Meanwhile, there are a number of things workers can do to take care of themselves. A good place to begin with is an ergonomically designed workstation. Ergonomics is the study of human factors related to computers. A properly designed workstation takes a variety of factors into account, such as the distance from the eyes to the screen and the angle of the arms and wrists.
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Why is ergonomics important for designing workstations?