EBS 2026학년도 수능특강 영어
27강 컴퓨터, 인터넷, 정보, 미디어, 교통
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Truth is essential for progress and ____ development of knowledge, as it serves as the foundation upon which reliable and accurate understanding is built.
However, one of the greatest ____ to the accumulation of knowledge can now be found on social media platforms.
As social media becomes a primary source of information for millions, its unregulated nature allows ____ to spread rapidly.
Social media users may unknowingly participate in creating and circulating misinformation, which can influence elections, cause violence, ____ create widespread panic, as seen in various global incidents.
As creators and consumers, it is our responsibility to take on ____ greater role in the enhancement of fact-checking protocols in order to ensure accuracy.
It is critical that participants safeguard the reliability ____ information, supporting a more informed and rational public community.
1 미디어 분야에서 반향실 효과
In ____ the echo chamber effect arises in a situation where information, ideas, or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission and repetition inside an “enclosed” system, often drowning out different or competing views.
Big data sources utilising web data are particularly prone ____ this effect.
People using web forums and communities often surround themselves with ____ that echo similar opinions to their own.
Diverging opinions are ____ marginalised or dismissed as ‘trolls’. This has the effect of distorting what is then considered to be the general consensus.
This theory ____ cognitive dissonance, how humans strive for internal consistency, is well-established.
When we experience inconsistency (dissonance), we ____ psychologically distressed and will try to avoid and/or reduce the dissonance and achieve consonance.
The implications for big data are clear — web data-sets may be heavily biased and require significant interpretation before conclusions ____ be drawn.
2 컴퓨터와 수학 분야의 명명 성향
Although computer scientists and mathematicians tend to be talented at computer science and math, as a group they tend not to be sensitive to ____ nuances of language.
If something needs a name, they don’t obsess over picking the perfect name that ____ ideal connotations and Latin roots and what have you.
They just pick a name, usually one that has to do with something they ____
Python, the programming language, is named after Monty Python the comedy troupe (Monty ____ is the ur-comedy text in computer science, like Star Wars is the ur-narrative text.)
Django, a web framework, is named after Django Reinhardt, the jazz guitarist, a favorite of the ____ framework’s inventor.
Java, the programming language, is named after coffee. JavaScript, an unrelated language, was invented around the same time as Java and is also ____ named after coffee.
3 통신 산업 분야의 미래 예측 실패
In ____ services, when “picture phones” were introduced in 1963 at the New York World’s Fair, an American telecom giant, which had been at the forefront of designing and introducing the technology, estimated that there would be 10 million such phones in use in America by 1980.
But ____ real number in that year was closer to zero.
Thirty years later, with smartphones, laptops, tablets, and camera-equipped desktop computers, personal video penetration was at ____ other extreme, at 230 million.
Similarly, at one time mobile phones connected by satellites were widely expected by experts to be the ____ Big Thing.
In 1998, The Wall Street Journal enthusiastically claimed that “the consensus forecast by media ____ is of 30 million satellite phone subscribers by 2006.”
The ____ however, was vastly more modest than these experts predicted.
Such satellite phones, aside from some subsidized national security applications, are mostly used ____ rental units on adventure travel, and even that niche has been rapidly contested by alternatives.