Lesson 3 Predictions of the Future
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1 Predictions about the future of technology are usually not very nice. mm One qr
them, humans are fighting against a computer which iS very Smart. In another mx 議議
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people are brainwashed and working hard while the governmentis watching ther Al
the tme. We donot want that kind of fature.
2| Howevexr, tsaac Asimov, an American writer and a scientist, made good prediction。
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back in 1964 about our tves today. Hs predictions called “Visit to the Worlds Fa
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of 2014” appeared in 77e ep )2zz 77es 50 years agO-
3| You will see that a 1ot of his predictions have come true: self-driving cars, YOeo
caling, the use of nuclear power and robots that do various tasks at home. Asimoy
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also thought (ゆー 2014 the world population would be 6.5 bilion and the US
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population would reach 350 million.。 He came very close. The world population
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2014 was about 7.2 bilhion, and that ofthe US was 319 milhon.
