(30) It is believed that everyone has more leisure time because the technological advancements has increased people's efficiency
The speaker asserts that the more the technological advancement increase people's efficiency, the more and more sufficently leisure time peolple have.(The leissure time assigned to people will be gradually increased with the technological advancement: 과학기술지문+부사/수식어구 구사체)But, I (totally cannot agree) strongly disagree with the speaker's statement because the purpose of technological development is not to gurantee (does not mean necessarily) more leisure time, but to solve(but means solving) the problems such as incurable diseases, insufficient energy source and so on.( because the technology deveopment potentially bring about many aspects of unexpected side effects to people other than only purely meaning of leisure time )
Admittedly, the technological advancedment has saved people from heavy chores(works/working loads) by improving people's efficiency and by creating many convenient instruments. (In fact(For example), many convinent instruments spare our time.) As automatic machines are developed and widely applied to variety of factories, many empolyees do not have to do simple works demanding much time, thus, ( their labor time has been somewhat decreased, so they can enjoy their weekends day with their family due to the increased leisure time) they have been able to enjoy more leisure time (with thier family). And, In office, with the help of computer, we can easily and efficiently write and make various types of documents. Moreover, at home, many innovative home appliances save us from simple and daily routine house working like washing dishes, cleaning, laundry and so on. I partially admit that (with the boon of technology development, today's peple seem to have minor advantage in above mentioned respects. ) technology development increases people's efficiency, so it saves lots of pople's working time.
However, (as coins have both sides, we can see many unexpected negative/subsidary effects behind technology development. For example, most of updated technology strongly urge people to catch up with trends of new technology process, in other words, individuals have to spend much time in learning, training themselves to be fully dexterous at new skill. Otherwise, we are not properly equipped with updated skill, further, we are likely to be(treated as) outdated person comparered with others and we can confront the difficulty situation in our daily atomosphere including working place. For instance, peolple should comprehend every new version of computer programs and make efforts to be(become) proficient in dealing with new complicated machines. Thus, people shoud spend more and more time to adapt themselves to their changeable society with highly development speed. Paradoxically, instead of leisure time, the efficency that tech advancement has brought severly press people to adapt themselves to unexpected other issues.)
/ It is realliy dubious whether the developed technology could allow people to enjoy only their leisure time. In modern society, due to the high speed of tech development, most people are likely to suffer from insufficient time to catch up with new tech process. For instance, peolple should comprehend every new version of computer programs and make efforts to be(come) proficient in dealing with new complicated machines. Thus, people shoud spend more and more time to adapt themselves to their changeable society with highly development speed. Paradoxically, instead of leisure time, the efficency that tech advancement has brought severly press people to adapt themselves to unexpected other issues.
Besides, execpt for the increased people's efficiency, the tech advancement has other purposes of solving the problems of incurable human's diseases or solving the issues of insuffieinet energy resources. In modern society, various new type of human diseases like terrible AIDS, SARS have appeared/emerged, and it afflicts human being, moreover, it bring about many human casualties. To break through those serious problems, we should seek high level of medical technology to develope new medicine or curing treatments for these diseases. When it comes to the insufficient fossile fuel, we can see another goal of tech develpoment. As the amount of buried fossil fuels like oil, coals is drastically declining continuosly, so we must find quickly other altanative energy resources to provide the problems of exhastion of fossile fuel. Many reseachers have successfully accomplished to find out useful type of altinative energy resources such as tidal or solar power energy, hydrogen fuel energy. In this sense, we evidently know/confirm that the important purpose of tech advancement is to develope new means and methods to solve the imminent problems like human deasese, energy issue rather than to promote the people's efficiency or more leisure time.
To conclude, in some respects, I think the primary effects of tech advancements is to increase people efficiecsy by promoting more leisure time, However, on the contrary, It is posslble that people have less time to catch up with the development of technology. Besides, people should spend time to solve the urgent problems like incurable diseases and endeavor to solve the energy source issues especiaily for fuel fossil.( Thus, In my veiw, the speakers statement needs revising properly to accomodate and explain broader perspective.)
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The speaker asserts that many suppressed thoughts and feelings are expressed by means of the various art forms like literature, painting and music etc. I strongly agree with the speaker's statement because arts can not only reflect the superficial aspects of society but also uncover more frankly the concealed ideas of a society as a society historically becomes more advanced and free to publicize people's thoughts frankly.
Admittedly, when we consider the Middle Ages, since the Catholic community dominated all fields of a society at those times, the arts expressing liberal thoughts were heaviliy restricted, even treated as worthless and invalid (to show the social actual impulses.) Since there was a church and the God in the core of every art( at that time, the Middle society was God centered community and got the top position of social hiarachy, so every artist should have served mainly their artistic talents to express the religious belief or praise the worship of God. Moreover, it was impossible that arts express/criticize about the corruption of some churches, which many people had felt seriously during the Middle Ages. That is, arts of the Middle Ages were too confined to represent human's thoughts and inner impuses of a society freely.
However. At the Renaissance, blooming period of various arts, most arts including pictures and literature became to describe anything freely, even the human's instinction like erotic feeling. People in the Renaissance mentioned that the Middle Ages were dark ages without human nature. Artists started to draw pictures expressing an aspect of humans and writers represented their ideas to criticize a society freely/with freedom. For example, the Decameron, the representative novel if the Renaissance, contained/treated contents related to human sexes and ridiculing priests. Renaissance, the period in which expressing human's basic desires was admitted to allow many artists and writers to represent their idea/criticism and impulses of a society freely.
Today's artist's free representation cannot be compared with that of the Renaissance's artists. Even the sensitive social issues like the problems related antiwar, race discrimination, etc. are expressed through popular arts. Popular music provides main means/streams to channel/show such inner feelings of the society. Such trends are easily seen by the popular singers like Rollin Stones and Bob Dylan. A perspective example is the famous pop singer, Bob Dylan who has voiced his protests against the war through his songs such as " Blowing in the wind" and so on. He spreaded message about an antiwar idea by singing a song, just after begining of Vietnam War, when some antagonists about the war were emerging. His song revealed the antiwar idea hidden among many people. Thus, In my view, nowaday's arts fulfilly disclose the of a society.
To sum up, though there are some restriction to the represent artist's idea in such the past as the Middle Ages, today's artists become to represent more freely their thoughts and feelings,related to the impulses of a society.