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| Lead In |
1. “An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain” Do you agree with the statement? Why?/Why not? Are you optimistic about
the future? Why?/Why not?
2. Take turns to read the statements about the future. Do you agree with them? If not, what do you think will happen?
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| Reading |
1. Read the excerpts from the popular science articles and match them with the
headlines below.
| 1. Imagine you’re looking for romance at a party full of strangers. You’re nervous. Who are these people? How do you strike a conversation? Fortunately, you’re wired for social success: You’ve got a gizmo* that beams energy at microchips in everyone’s name tag. The chips beam back name, occupation, hobbies, obsessions, phobias, favorite movie, and availability for a date this Friday night – whatever. Dating made simple. This hasn’t quite happened in real life. But the world is already undergoing a revolution involving REID – radio frequency identification… | ||
| 2. Imagine an army of tiny robots, each no bigger than a bacterium, swimming through your bloodstream. One platoon* takes continuous readings of blood pressure in different parts of your body; another monitors cholesterol; still others measure blood sugar, hormone levels and immune system activity… If the nanotech experts are right, a call to a family doctor a few decades from now could be a high-tech variation on an old cliché: «Take two teaspoons of diagnostic sensors, and call me in the morning.” | ||
| ------------------------ gizmo – штуковина, вещица (о механизмах) | ||
| 3. Soon teams of up to 40 robots could be employed as border security guards and outside airports. The patrolling robots will use Wi-Fi to share what they see, sniff and hear. They may even be able to triangulate* the exact position of an intruder, or the source of plume of smoke from an explosion, something no single robot could do. The ideal is swarms* of robots that need no central control. And McLurkins’s robots have proved the principle that, equipped with the right algorithms, swarms of hardware can have autonomous control. Last year, for instance… | ||
| ---------------------- platoon – зд есь взвод, отряд | ||
| 4. … Self-heating hats and glow-in the-dark sweatshirts might correctly be labeled as ‘smart’, but how about a shirt that ‘knows’ whether you are free to take a cell phone call or retrieve information from a 1000 page safety manual displayed on your inside pocket? Such items, termed ‘intelligent’ clothing to distinguish them from their lower-tech cousins, have proved… | ||
| ------------------ triangulate – дать трехмерное изображение swarm – здесь стая, толпа |
A) Wearable Intelligence
B) The Radio Age
C) Robot Army Will Think For Itself
D) And Will They Go Inside Us?
Discuss
Ø Which technologies of the future that you have read about sound most interesting? Why?
Ø What other innovations do you expect to see in your daily life in the future? Why?
Ø What challenges do you think will the 21st century bring?
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