調查:多數人稱離開高速網絡無法生活

High-speed Internet has had the greatest technological impact on society over the past decade and is the technology most people say they cannot live without, according to a new poll.

Twenty four percent of 1,950 U.S. adults questioned in the online survey conducted by Zogby International said high-speed Internet had the greatest impact on their lives, followed closely by Facebook at 22 percent.

Of the technologies people say they cannot live without, high-speed Internet came in first at 28 percent and email was second at 18 percent.

When asked what they thought would be the greatest technological advancement in the next year, 24 percent said it would be in home entertainment and 16 percent said it would be in general computing.

Looking ahead to the next decade, 43 percent of those surveyed predicted there would be regular use of stem cells and cloning techniques to create human organs for transplant.

Forty percent said computer chips would be implanted in people to monitor their health, and the same number said robots would be capable of performing manual labor jobs.

最新調查顯示，在過去十年中，高速互聯網對社會的科技影響最大，大多數人表示離開它就無法生活。

佐格比國際公司共對1950名美國成年人開展了此項在線調查，24%的受訪者稱高速互聯網對他們的生活影響最大，緊隨其後的是Facebook（得票率22%）。

在被問及離開何種科技就無法生活時，高速互聯網以28%的得票率高居榜首，電子郵件排在第二，得票率爲18%。

調查還要求受訪者預測明年最大的科技進步，24%的人認爲將出現在家庭娛樂領域，另有16%認爲將與通用計算有關。

展望未來十年，43%的受訪者預測稱幹細胞的應用、以及利用克隆技術製造用於移植的人體器官將非常普遍。

40%的受訪者表示計算機芯片將被植入人體來監測健康狀況，另有相同比例的受訪者表示機器人將可以從事手工勞動的工作。

Vocabulary:

stem cell: an undifferentiated cell that gives rise to specialized cells, such as blood cells（幹細胞）