Practise reading modern press. Станкова Т.Ю. - 23 стр.

transfer and cloning on the one hand, and robots capable of self-
replication and evolution on the other.
      The changed relationshi ps transforming international politics
and economics stem from technology as well (3). The enormous
increase in the number of people with direct access to vast amounts
of information means that the role of governments and their organs
— central banks, intelligence agencies and the like — is greatly
reduced. Nonstate actors are empowered both in relative terms and
absolutely. The shift in power from government to the market place
is enhanced by the speed with which information is communicated.
Markets respond in seconds. Covernments, by design, cannot...
      The Information Revolution is a revolution whose impacts will
be shaped by wise or foolish policies and societal choices. Within
the code and architecture of information and communication
technologies themselves, and in the laws that will emerge to regulate
them, lie choices that will shape the boundaries of personal privacy,
determine whether these powerful tools serve public or commercial
ends, balance urban space against cyberspace, and weigh individual
vesus community needs and values in every society.


 Exercises to the text «The Information Revolution»

      I. Find the following words and phrases in the text, translate them and
learn them by heart:
     consequence, cause, boundary, computing technology,
communication technology, human-engineering, reproduction, gene,
cloning, amounts of information, architecture of information,
cyberspace.
      II. Find English equivalents of the following in the text:
     ÿâëåíèÿ; ïîñëåäñòâèå, à íå ïðè÷èíà; ïðåòåðïåâàòü èçìå-
íåíèÿ; íà÷èíàÿ ñ 1990 ã.; èçìåíÿòü îòíîøåíèÿ; âî âðåìåíè è
ïðîñòðàíñòâå; ñîáûòèÿ ïðîèñõîäÿò; ïîòîêè ÷åðåç ãîñóäàðñòâåí-
íûå ãðàíèöû ïîñòîÿííî ðàñòóò; âíóòðåííÿÿ è âíåøíÿÿ ïîëè-
òèêà; ãåííàÿ èíæåíåðèÿ, ïåðåñàäêà ãåíîâ; êëîíèðîâàíèå; ïðÿ-
ìîé äîñòóï ê îãðîìíûì îáúåìàì èíôîðìàöèè; ïåðåõîä âëàñòè
îò ïðàâèòåëüñòâà ê ðûíêó; ïåðåäàâàòü èíôîðìàöèþ; ìóäðàÿ èëè
íåäàëåêàÿ ïîëèòèêà; â ðàìêàõ êîäà è ñòðóêòóðû èíôîðìàöèè;


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