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Lesson 3
Predictions of the Future
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Part 1
| Predictions about the future of technology are usually not very nice. In one of them,
humans are fighting against a computer which is very smart. In another one, people are
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braihwashed and working hard while the government is watching them all the time. We
do not want that kind of future.
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2 However, Isaac Asimo, an American writer and a scientist, made good predictions back
in_1964 about our lives today. His predictions called “Visit to the World's Fair of 2014"
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appeáred in The New York Times 50 years ago.
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3 You will see that a lot of his predictions have come true: self-driving cars, video calling,
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the use of nuclear p&wer, and robots that do various tasks at home. Asimov also thought
that in 2014 the world population would be 6.5 billion and the US population would reach
350 million.He came very close. The world population in 2014 was about 7.2 billion, and
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that of the US was 319 million.
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【Questions)
1. Answer the following questions.
1. What are some examples of a future that we don't want?
