Unit IX. Future trends

LESSON 29: Nano-technology
HOMETASK
Task 1.
B. Computers everywhere: human-centered technologies
The relationship between people and computers will be closer
Computers will be embedded or hidden, in a variety of items. For example, we’ll have wearable computers that will be embedded in a belt or a piece of jewelry, etc.
User interfaces, the systems that facilitate communication between people and computers, will resemble human communication. There will be gesture interfaces based on facial-hand recognition systems.
ICT devices will be made and multimedia. We’ll watch m bile TV programs on our phones, which will also access the Internet and work as mobile office.
Computer chips can be injected under the skin. RFID, radio frequency identification tags, might be used to track or identify people or to store information, such as medical data, although there are concerns about privacy and personal safety.
In the future, we’ll be able to swim in the Immersive Internets, a technology that will change the two-dimensional world of the Internet into 3-D experience with three-dimension sound and images and even the sense of touch.
By the year 2040 there might be intelligent robots, machines that will be able to think creatively. The processing power of computers may have reaches 1.000.000.000. MIPS (millions of instructions per second) the estimated speed of human thought.

Write a caption under each picture illustrating the future trends from part B of the text





1-Hidden computers
2-ICT devices
3-gesture interface
4-intelligent robots
5-computer chips
6-3D experience
APPENDIX 5. POST-PRACTICE
Work in pairs. Match the terms with their definitions

1. 
   Quantum bits a. a microchip made with organic materials
   
2. 
   DNA biochip b. the speed at which the CPU processes instructions
   
3. 
   Embedded c. the device or program used to interact with a computer
   
4. 
   User interface d. subatomic particles used in quantum computers
   
5. 
   MIPS e. fixed, integrated
   

1-D
2-A
3-C
4-C
5-B