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8 Discuss with your partner.
· What will users benefit from computers getting more powerful?
· What kind of devices will be replaced by monitors in the future?
· What is the purpose of most investigations of computer companies nowadays?
· Will innovations of computer technologies influence household devices?
9 You know that computer technology is a quickly developing branch. Many
inventions and devices reported in the text as innovations have already
become a reality. Look at the following information and decide what is already
available (√) and what is only a science fiction. Explain your choice.
Computers will get cheaper.
Computers will be integrated with other devices.
Monitors will change from cathode ray tube monitors to flat screen
panels.
The shape and design of computers are likely to change and become
much more varied.
You'll print your holiday snaps straight from a laser.
You’ll be able to talk to your computer to control it without using a
keyboard.
You'll be able to use your computer as a video-recorder and edit video
on your computer.
The way that software is sold will change.
Instead of buying individual packages people may rent or hire the
components they need and connect to them over the Internet.
Computers will probably be integrated more with TV systems and
with telephony.
Computers will become much more communication devices.
At home our fridges, cookers and other devices almost certainly will
be computer controlled.
It's likely much smaller devices will be probably built into clothing so
that you can walk about wearing a computer which will allow you to
communicate wherever you go.
Computers might be implanted into the human brain.
10 Discuss with the class the following statement: Smart computers
in the future will be everywhere.
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