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What’s next after the smartphone? Humans can play tricks today that magicians couldn’t have imagined...
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What’s next after the smartphone?
Humans can play tricks today that magicians couldn’t have imagined 50 years ago. Armed with only a tiny device today, our smartphone allows us to access a lifetime’s worth of information, connect with anyone in real time even if they are miles away. But the most astonishing part of this technological “magic” is the speed at which new opportunities and experiences are coming out.
For generations, we have seen the inevitable connection between humans and technology as advancements are applied to serve us and improve our quality of life. And the rate of technological progress is doubling every year.
Twenty years ago, who would have thought that we would be walking with robots and cyborgs (半人半机器的生物)? With the development of technology, we humans are accepting digital technologies to improve and expand our senses and abilities. Take Moon Ribs and Neil Harbison for example. They are both cyborgs, with Ribs having a chip put into her arm so she can feel earthquakes all around the world in real time and Harbison, who is color blind, has an antenna (天线) put into his head to allow him to be aware of visible and invisible colors via sound waves.
This is only the beginning. As we continue to spend more time with machines, the more they will become embedded (嵌入) in our lives. Technology already feels like it has a mind of its own, and over the next two decades, this will become even more pronounced.
Machines will eventually become as intelligent as us, and, while today they may just live in our pockets, tomorrow they could be in our blood stream and our minds, linking us to the cloud. And as this gap separating humans and machines continues to close, we will reach a point where they can be hardly identified. Technology and humanity will fuse (融合) together some day in the near future.
1.The first paragraph of the passage is intended to tell readers _____.
A.smartphone brings us convenience and lifetime’s worth of information
B.the magical and powerful functions of smartphone
C.the most astonishing technological magic of smartphone
D.new opportunities and experiences are approaching at a high speed
2.The writer of this passage takes Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson for example to _____.
A.make a comparison between the two of them
B.introduce the founders of the Cyborg Foundation
C.prove they are much more intelligent than human beings
D.show that machines has become embedded in human lives
3.Neil Harbison is a cyborg that can _____.
A.help human to create other cyborgs
B.sense colours by using sound waves
C.see both visible and invisible colours
D.feel earthquakes all around the world
4.What is the main idea of this passage?
A.The new technologies related to smartphone in the near future.
B.Machines will eventually become as intelligent as human beings.
C.The future tendency that technology and humanity will fuse together.
D.We are reaching a point where we can’t tell technologies and machines apart.
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