Future technology - Unit 2

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Close-up C2, National Geographic Learning

Read the passage, then select the word or phrase that fills the blank in both grammar and meaning.

won't

will

shan't

aren't

horizon

pipeline

way

cards

fear

plan

hope

foresee

due

about

probably

unlikely

before

until

though

once

forthcoming

upcoming

imminent

envisaging

point

way

store

future

as

after

while

before

bound

dread

possible

certainly

looming

brewing

offing

impending

Although the future is impossible to predict accurately, futurists (1) ___ ever stop trying. Based on the evidence of what is possible, they can often make good guesses about the technologies that are in the (2) ___ . Many experts (3) ___ incredible progress in technology, which is (4) ___ to change our lives forever. In all likelihood, smart technology will spread to every aspect of daily life. Driverless cars are already being tested, and (5) ___ they have proved to be safe, they will become common and there will be fewer road accidents. Wearable technology is (6) ___ , too, with some predicting that by 2020 computers and phones will already have been incorporated into clothes. Also in (7) ___ are sensors in your jacket which will warn you about traffic (8) ___ you cross the road if you forget to look left and right. You won't need much space in your wardrobe, which will contain just one all-purpose nanofibre outfit that changes shape and colour. Not only clothes, but our bodies, too, will carry technology in the form of cybernetic implants allowing us to surf the Internet with our brains. Another development, which is (9) ___ to be very controversial, is artificial intelligence. The possibility that a computer's intelligence could exceed a human's is, for some scientists, a sure signal of (10) ___ doom.

Future technology

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