According to BTs futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium(a period of 1,000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life.
Pearson has __1__ together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a __2__ millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key __3__ and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an __4__ life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs __5__ into use between now and 2040.
Pearson also __6__ a breakthrough in computer human links. By linking __7__ to our nervous system, computers could pick up __8__ we feel and, hopefully, simulate __9__ too so that we can start to __10__ full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck, he says.
But that, Pearson points __11__, is only the start of man-machine __12__:It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will __13__ lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.__14__ his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no __15__ for when faster-than-light travel will be __16__, or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible.
But he does __17__ social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, __18__ problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic __19__ robots will mean people may not be able to __20__ between their human friends and the droids. And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage.
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2.[A]complicated [B]delicate [C]subtle [D]unique
3.[A]breakthroughs [B]findings [C]events [D]incidents
4.[A]expanded [B]extended [C]enlarged [D]enriched
5.[A]being [B]becoming [C]carrying [D]coming
6.[A]schedules [B]plans [C]predicts [D]designs
7.[A]directly [B]instantly [C]precisely [D]automatically
8.[A]that [B]how [C]what [D]all
9.[A]thinking [B]hearing [C]sight [D]feeling
10.[A]form [B]develop [C]find [D]undertake
11.[A]out [B]at [C]to [D]toward
12.[A]program [B]production [C]experiment [D]integration
13.[A]finally [B]ultimately [C]utterly [D]absolutely
14.[A]Through [B]Though [C]During [D]By
15.[A]forecasts [B]articles [C]stories [D]meetings
16.[A]advisable [B]affordable [C]available [D]valuable
17.[A]solve [B]arose [C]exercise [D]expect
18.[A]confront [B]cause [C]witness [D]collect
19.[A]lovely [B]likely [C]lifelike [D]lively
20.[A]distinguish [B]differ [C]diagnose [D]deviate
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