I Change the sentences given below using Future Perfect.

1. Perhaps by 2010, it could be possible to have infrared distribution to each seat in all trains and planes in order to guarantee high bandwidth communication.

2. We can expect human: machine equivalence by about 2015.

3. By the year 2020, it’s likely that we will use multiprocessor computer’s systems.

4. In 2025 quantum computers will appear in our houses.

5. By around 2030, we may have the technology to directly link our brain to the ultra-smart computers that will be around then, giving us so much extra brainpower that we deserve a new name, Homo Cyberneticus.

6. Ordinary biological humans would eventually accept the transition and plain old Homo Sapiens could become voluntarily extinct, perhaps as early as 2200.

II Express your point of view to the predictions given below using a list of certainty expressions.

MORE	Verbs	Adverbs	Adjectives
C	will, will not	certainly	certain
E
R		likely, unlikely	expected
T
A		probably	probable
I
N
LESS	could, may, might	possibly	possible

1. We will be in the midst of convergence in 2010.

2. Computers will continue to get smarter.

3. By 2020 extraterrestrials will have landed and given us all their advanced technology.

4. In the near future we may have electronic pets, with video camera eyes and microphone ears, linked by radio to the family computer.

5. All housework will have been done by robots by around 2100.

6. With voice and language recognition we will have easy access to all that the Internet can provide.

7. Electronic money will be very secure but much more versatile than physical alternatives.

8. E-cash can be completely global and could be used as a de facto standard.

9. Some organizations will follow the virtual company model, where a small core of key employees is supported by contractors on a project by project basis, bringing together the right people regardless of where they live.

10. All people will have an electronic chip under their skin, which contains all information about a person.

III Match the terms in Table A with the statements in Table B.

Table A

1. Interface problem

2. Voice and language recognition

3. Technophobic users

4. Telecomms applications

6. Virtual environments

7. Encryption

8. Voice processing

9. Voice synthesis

10. Visualisation technology

1. 10.Teleworking

11. Cyberspace

12. Reverse engineering of the human brain

13. Intelligent agents

14. Biotechnology

Table B

a. Environments that are computer simulated

b. Exploring the human brain from the inside and finding out how it works

c. Systems and devices used to create a virtual reality environment

d. The industrial application of biological science techniques

e. Programs used for communications over long distances

f. The problem of communication between us and machines

g. Changing speech into digital signals

h. The combination of all data on all the computer networks throughout the world, accessed using the Internet

i. Computer programs that can be trained to watch, learn and start communicating

j. Computer programs changing speech into program commands and digital data

k. Working at home while communicating with your office by computer, telephone and fax

l. The transformation of data into coded form to make it secure

m. Users who have a fear or strong dislike of technology and technological devices

n. The generation of a human-sounding voice using electronic circuits

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