Today,i wold like to talk about the effects the internet age has on our work-and -rest timetable.

 A long ,long time ago,people rose with the sun rise ,and set with it .Nobody cared if it was sunny somewhere else .Voices didn't carry across the plante.Time was  a local concept:time to milk the cow,time to get in the wheat and rice;time to sit and rest.

 who knows when the changes began;all these have changed.today,commerce and communication never cease but go around the clock.on cable-tv new shows ,events didn't happen at a certain hour,but an hour or 30 minutes ago.local time is no longer the meaning marker of events.

 in this information age, the internet never  breaks for a rest ,nor for sleep,but humans will sleep and must sleep,because if people want to stay alive, they must live by  their own natures clock.however,this information age has been the death of shared routines and will shake people and society to their core.for example,our companions perhaps are no longer our community neighbors ,but the people on our e-mail list,or simply no one.

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今天我想和大家谈一下网络时代给人们作息安排带来的影响。

从前人们日出而出，日落而息。没有人关心别的地方是否阳光灿烂。声音传达不到地球的另一端。时间只是一个区域性的概念：挤牛奶有规定的时间，割稻收麦有规定的时间，坐下来休息也有规定的时间。

 不知从哪一天起，这些都发生了变化。今天，商务和通信24小时不停地进行着。在有线电视的新闻节目中所报道的事件不是在几点钟发生，而是在一个小时或30分钟前发生。当地时间已不再是一个有意义的时间标志。

  在这个信息时代，因特网永远不会休息，永远也不会睡觉。而人总是要睡觉的，而且必须睡觉，因为人若要活下去就必须按自己的生物钟生活。然而在这个信息时代，共同的日常作息制已经消亡，人与社会将从根本上受到冲击。譬如说，我们的伙伴也许已不是社区的邻居，而是电子邮件目录上的那些人，或许根本就不存在什么伙伴