The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Tomorrow's world for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Read the article. What does it tell us about the things shown in Exercise 1? What predictions does it make about translating machines and nano monitors?
Complete the summary of the article with words from the text. Use one word in each gap.
Answer
a)
Tower blocks will have vertical gardens built into them. Each floor will grow different plants, fruits and vegetables, and the water will be recycled.
Microchips in the brain will allow a person to experience games, movies and virtual life as if they are real, giving us the sensation of touching, seeing, etc. virtual objects in virtual worlds.
3D printers will help our health by making copies of body parts such as hearts, livers and kidneys. They can already copy plastic and metal objects.
Translating machines will make it sound as though the user is speaking a foreign language, by using his/her voice frequencies.
Nano monitors in our bodies will produce lots of data to help us check our health and predict illnesses.