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A. Robots will have replaced people in
factories.
B. Scientists have already produced clones of
animals.
C. Medical technology will have controlled
many diseases.
D. Cars will run on new, clean fuels and they
will go very fast.
E. No one can predict what our world will look
like in the near future.
F. So many changes have taken place in this
planet that there will be no life existing on it.
G. Instead, people will choose a program from
a "menu" and a computer will send the program directly to the
television.
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Futurologists
(未来学家)
predict that life will probably be very different in 2050.
TV
channels will have disappeared. Today, we can use the World Wide Web
to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of
kilometers away. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers and books will
come to us by computer.
Cars will have computers to control the speed and there won't be any accidents.
Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By
2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination.
Many factories already use robots. Big companies prefer robots—they don't ask
for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will
see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and
homes.
Today, there are devices (设备) that connect directly to the brain to help
people hear. By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and
hear again with the help of new technology.
Scientists
will have discovered how to control genes. By 2050, scientists will be
able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and
how clever they are. Scientists will be able to do these things, but should
they?