Computers: marcador de extensão paralela (C2)
We were promised a tool and we received a habitat. That is not a complaint about screens; it is a claim about what tools do when they become continuous. A hammer shapes the hand for as long as the hand holds it, and then the hand is returned to itself. The machine on the desk is never put down, and so the shaping has no end point: attention learns the rhythm of the interface, memory outsources whatever the index will hold, and the sentence itself begins to arrive in the lengths the medium rewards. ___, the archive changes the archivist. A library that can be searched instantly does not merely deliver the passage faster; it makes a certain kind of thinker unnecessary, the one who held the shape of an argument in his head because retrieval was expensive. Whether that is a loss depends on what you believe thinking is for. If it is the production of conclusions, the exchange looks like a clear profit. If it is the slow arrangement of an interior, then something has been traded away quietly, without a receipt, and we will not know the price for a generation, by which time nobody will remember the alternative.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a lacuna do texto.
- A) On the contrary
- B) Be that as it may
- C) By the same token
- D) For all that
- E) In the event