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A lot of it will go on making things talk to each other. I have my laptop, my mobile
phone/PDA, my digital music player and all sorts of other technology in my
briefcase at the moment, and if I was willing to make the investment I could have
a 3G card and be online even as I type this on a train journey.
9) _________ I think the big change we will see in the next 10 years is that
programs will get better at acting independently and communicating over the
network without our intervention.
Cars will book themselves in for servicing, hospitals will consult online diaries
before scheduling an appointment, and fishing boats will sell their catch at market
before reaching port, all thanks to these software agents.
Of course this brings with it massive risks, and poses threats to privacy and social
life which will worry many of us. 10) ________
A wired world carries with it the potential to achieve a much greater measure of
social justice for all in the world. It could help us manage resources, be aware of
natural or human disasters more rapidly and deal with the enormous complexity of
the world more effectively.
It is not an unalloyed good, of course, and producing computers and running
networks has its own environmental cost.
11) ___________
2 Choose an appropriate heading for each paragraph of the text from the
list below, there is one extra heading which you don’t need to use.
A
B London bash
C 10 years of e-commerce
D Power on tap
E Wired world
3 Complete the sentences.
1 The 29
th
of October
2004 ____
2 It was in 1969 ___
3 The first internet cafe
___
4 Labour MP Derek Wyatt
speculated that ____
5 The author hopes that
____
6 The author predicts that
____
A what the Internet will look like in 10 years.
B in 10 years the Internet will be available for
those who have no access to it today.
C was distinguished by the 35th anniversary of
the data transmission on the Arpanet.
D offered its keyboards to the visitors in
London 10 years ago.
E when data could be transmitted from and to
University of California in Los Angeles.
F software of the future will be able to
communicate over the net independently.
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