Some people think books are losing importance as a source of information and entertainment. To what extent do you agree?
Along with the development of modern technology,
books
are replaced by computers as a knowledge
source, while movies and games have partly taken over the place of books
as events of entertainment
. Hence
some people
argued that books
have become less important than before. I partly agree with this
statement.
First
and foremost, as the fact that searching boosters like Chrome and Fox are making information
acquirement more and more convenient, books
tend to be less essential in the knowledge
area
. For example
, one can easily find out a piece of certain information
by searching applications instead
of books
, if I am curious about the weather tomorrow, terming to the internet is much easier than going to academic books
about weather and geography and learning to read the clouds. Therefore
, sometimes books
can be less useful to modern people
in acquiring information
.
Moreover
, nowadays people
have more choices during their relaxation time, for instance
, TV series and electric games, books
seem to have partly retired from the entertainment
business. According to some research, the number of books
read by people
worldwide is declining in recent years. Furthermore
, except for physical stimulations targetting the eyes and ears offered by movies and computer games, which could be done with friends, books
are apparently more private as entertainment
. It always requires more time and more concentration for book reading. Due to these reasons, books
are less popular as entertainment
choices today.
However
, books
are still important in both the knowledge
area
and the entertainment
area
. For knowledge
area
, books
are still the fastest way for people
to systematically dig into a specific area
like physics, organic chemistry and so on, while the internet is better at offering general ideas about complex knowledge
. With regard to entertainment
, books
evoke imagination much more than any other entertainment
due to the fact that it only focuses on words content. That is
why there are still so many people
who love reading in their relaxation time.
In conclusion, although
technology has developed a lot these days, books
are still rendered as essential tools to acquire systematical
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systematic
information
and entertain people
by imagination the most.Submitted by caoyueran136 on
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