As technology develops, online business meetings and business training increasingly rise. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
题目大意
随着技术的发展，在线商务会议和商务培训日益增多。利大于弊吗？
写作思路解析
优点大于缺点
有一些担忧试图将这种科技发展与一些负面影响弥合起来。我们的假设是，越来越多地依赖互联网上的商务会议和培训，直接违反了“商务”本身的本质。传统上，商务聚集或多或少是正式的，在此期间，人们正式坐在一起，穿着西装；这种有纪律的方式迫使他们专注于会议或课程的内容，并面对面进行进一步的讨论。然而，当它变成在线模式时，上面的场景就再也不存在了：与会者不那么自我激励；他们很容易拖延。他们也与传统的社交活动隔绝；如果没有进一步的讨论和一些额外的活动，事情就会变得枯燥乏味。一些人仍然担心，与会者不再足够认真地对待这些会议或培训，因为参与缺乏仪式感-如果不需要那么正式，人们可能会对他们漫不经心。
然而，倡导者则有不同的看法，他们侧重于这种模式会给他们带来什么，认为与潜力和可能性相比，上文所提及的局限性和仪式性不值一提。从这类人的角度来看，商务会议和培训的核心是分享从日常工作内容中不易获得的新信息和商业理念。在线商务方法所能做的就是传递这些信息，并在高层和员工之间或公司之间直接提供沟通，而不需要担心任何实际的困难，比如距离、房间大小或其他一些个人不便。相比之下，对与会者来说，着装得体、举止得体或当面做一些进一步的讨论有那么重要吗？即使答案是肯定的，在线会议系统也发展得很好，视频功能和实时互动可以满足这些要求，当然如果视频显示看得更清楚，效果会更好。
提纲梳理见下
写作示范
There has been no time in history where the lived lives of people have changed more dramatically. A quick reflection on a typical day reveals how technology has revolutionized the world. People in the past years may have never imagined that this day’s working mode would be different, so different that employees will be reached through wireless networks that utilize satellites orbiting the earth. Online meetings and business training prevail ever since those common occurrences, convenient for users to break down certain real-world barriers.
There are concerns out there attempting to bridge the dramatic changes to some negative effects. The assumption is that the increased reliance on a business meeting and training over the internet directly violates the essence of the “business” itself. Traditionally, a business type of gathering is formal, during which people officially sit together, wearing suits; this disciplined approach forces them to concentrate on the contents of the meetings or courses and make further discussions in person. When it turns into the online mode, however, the scene above never exists again: attenders are less self-motivated when there is no practical supervision from authorities; they procrastinate easily. They are also isolated from traditional social engagement; things then become dull when without further discussion and some extra activities. Some are still worrying that employees may never take those meetings or training seriously enough since the participation lacks the sense of ritual—one may treat them casually if there is no need to be that formal.
However, advocators see things differently; they focus on what this mode would bring to them and think that compared with the potentials and possibilities, limitations listed in the paragraph above are not worth a mention. The core of business meetings and training, from the perspective of this kind of person, is to share new information and commercial conceptions that are not easily gained from one’s daily job contents. What the online business approaches can do is to deliver this information and provide communications directly between the high-level and the employees, or between companies, without worrying about difficulties like, say, the distance, the size of the room, or some other personal inconveniences. By contrast, would it be that important for the attendees to dress up well, to behave, or to make some further discussion in person? Even if the answer is positive, the online meeting system has been developing so well that the video functions and the real-time interactions can fulfill those requirements，or be even better if video displays see things more clearly.
Technological improvement always marks the human experiences, and every time the revolution comes, there will be no limit to the number of problems, both new and old, for us to tackle. There is certainly no need to retreat to a Luddite attitude to new things, but rather optimistically see the possibilities the technology brings to us.
