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