Robots
Rodney Brooks,professor of robotice at MIT,says the problems of developing artificial intelligence for robots will be at least partly overcome.As a result,”the possibilities for robots working with people will open up immensely”
Energy
Bill Joy,GREen technology expert in Califomia,says:”The most significant breakthrought would be to have an inexhaustible source of safe,green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source.”
Ideally,such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide,the main GREenhouse gas blamed for global warming.
Society
Geoffrey Miller,evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico,says:”The US will follow the UKin realizing that religion is nor a prerequisite (前提)for ordinary human decency.
“This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction.”
He also predicts that “ahsurdly wasteful”displays of wealth will become umfashionable while the importance of close-knit communities and families will become clearer.
These there changer,he says,will help make us all”brighe\ter,wiser,happier and kinder”.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
1.What is john lngham’s report about?
A)A solution to the global energy crisis
B)Extraordinary advances in technology.
C)The latest developments of medical science
D)Scientists’vision of the world in halfa century
2. According to Harvard professor Steven Pinker,predictions about the future_____.
A)may invite trouble
B)may not come true
