Unit 1 Text1 What’s the Big Idea
Nokia sponsors a wide range of educational, cultural and other activities
One of the most unusual activities was the sponsoring of “Future Histories”, a collection of stories by prominent writers of science fiction
Why should a telecommunications company become involved with literature
It could be called “research”
诺基亚公司举办了一系列有关教育文化的的意义活动
其中最不寻常的一项活动是举办“未来的历史”,由科幻小说作家们收集的小说故事系列
为什么一个通讯公司变得与文学有牵涉,它就是所谓的“科学研究”
Science and literature have traditionally been hostile to each other
Writers have regarded scientists as dull creatures who take pleasure in destroying great words of the imagination with boring facts
Scientists have thought of writers as frivolous people with no respect for the rules of evidence
At the heart of their mutual suspicion is the qu