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people, still in denial, are kidding themselves by thinking that the end of the Net
transformations is anywhere in sight.
Where are the frontiers of computing? It's scary to contemplate, because the
field is so young and the technology so flexible. But consider what some computer
scientists are already working on. Nanocomputers - microscopic devices that may
change the way we think of materials. Digital ink that will, in effect, transform
paper into something as protean as computer screens. And "artificial life" software
that works like biological organism. If history is our guide, even our imaginations
cannot grasp what the computer will ultimately become.
5
In small groups discuss the following questions.
· Why are often ingenious inventions underestimated by contemporaries and
“tossed into the unforgiving core dump of history”?
· Is it possible to predict with certainty future technological innovations?
6
One of you is a journalist and the other is John von Neumann
who has recently constructed the first real computer. Role-play an
interview with the scientist. A journalist can ask about the following:
· his joint work with Pennsylvania scientists;
· prior inventions or concepts which he had at his disposal;
· the work purpose and the design of his computer;
· the launch of the computer into the market;
· his forecast for the future of computers;
LISTENING
7 You are going to listen to a lecture describing to new students the
ways in which computers may be useful to them. Look at the words below
and try to organize them into a connectivity matrix (a diagram showing the
correlation of notions).
Business Studies, Computer Science, Languages, Computer, History, Social
Sciences, Physics and Chemistry
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