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a What kind of technological innovations are you interested in? Discuss in which areas
technological items are developed and used.

b Read the text and find out in which areas the technological items are developed.

all over the world prefer robots to human beings
as they are more economical and productive.

Without any doubt, our age is the age of technology.
Today’s technology is making our lives much
easier in most areas from food to cars. In other
words, you can find technological advances in a Do you have any idea about “virtual reality”?
wide range of areas such as education, defense This term is used for computer technology that
industry, food industry, communication systems, makes a person feel like they are not in the real
and so on. Technologic improvements have no world, but somewhere else by using special glasses.
limits and they are getting more advanced day by For producing those images, sounds, and other
day. Sometimes, it is not easy for us to comprehend sensations; special kind of software is used so
the dynamic and fast nature of technological that a user can feel as if she or he were in another
improvements. world. There is also “augmented reality” which
makes changes in the real place a person is in.
To illustrate, it is not easy to imagine a car without These glasses are not only used in game industry,
a driver. However, Google has been working on but also in defense and medical industry.
selfdriving cars for 6 years. The company designed
it 6 years ago and since then they have been doing These technologies may sound like a science
some test drives. The name of this new car type fiction film. However, not long ago, people were
is “Waymo” as it is the abbreviated form of “a also shocked by the idea of cell phones. They
new way forward in mobility”. Certainly, the aim believed that it was impossible to carry our phones
of these cars is to decrease the traffic accidents with us. What is more, they were so expensive in
resulting from human error and also to make the first place that people couldn’t afford to buy
the lives of disabled and elderly people easier. In them. In a short time, using cell-phones became
these cars, there won’t be any drivers who would so widespread that it became nearly impossible
run a red light, cut someone off, tailgate, or speed to see someone who doesn’t use cell phones
up. Thus, the risk of accidents will be minimized. nowadays. The same thing can happen again for
Until now, it has been driven over 2 million miles those technologies soon.
on public roads and had only 11 accidents. As you
can guess, “Waymo” was not responsible for any of
the accidents; the reason was human error again.
We are familiar with robots as people have been
designing them for a long time. In our age, in
some fields and in some countries, robots are
used instead of people. For example, they can be
used as farmers, pharmacists, and even soldiers!
It is estimated that by 2030, one fourth of all USA
combat soldiers will be replaced by robots. Except
from military robots, more and more companies

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