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Unit 11 Visions of the Future
Part I Warming up
Section A
I—Interviewer M—Man W—Woman
I : What do you think might happen in the business world in the next 20 years or so?
W: Um ... there’ll be no more telexes, businesses will only use fax and electronic mail.
M: Mm ... Office cleaning will be done by robots.
W: Well, there will be much more unemployment.
M: Well, I think, people will have to retrain for new skills every ten years.
W: I think robots will replace production workers.
W: Computers will replace clerical workers.
M: People will buy their food from home.
W: There’ll be less need for transport, as people will work from home.
M: Most consumer advertising will be delivered directly to the home.
W: Well, business travel will be replaced by live video meetings, there wont be any need to go to see the client any more.
Section B.
1. I think I’ll probably be in a spaceship on my way to the planet Mars.
2. I may be in charge of a robot court, judging some robots.
3. I think the population will have gone up so much that either everyone will be living in big plastic domes in the Sahara Desert or else they’ll be living under the sea.
4. Obviously nuclear war worries me, but I don’t think that’ll happen. Because I don’t think that any human being can—is capable of actually pressing some button(s) that release all the nuclear arms.
5. Perhaps we’ll be able to convert brain waves into radio waves and then change them back to brain waves, so you could actually have a conversation with someone without talking.
6. And there’ll be so many people—I think there may—unless they have another planet to go to—there’ll be loads and loads of tower blocks for people to live in.
7. It’ll probably be computers that are running the country by then.
Section C
The Earth is a planet just under 8,000 miles in diameter, moving round the Sun at a distance of 93,000,000 miles, and completing one circuit in 365 X days. It is not the only planet; eight others are known, all
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