ETSIADI (UPV)
ENGLISH COURSE Prof. Beatriz Martín Marchante
INVENTIONS TO SPEAK / WRITE ABOUT:
1. 99% of personal data in the cloud
2. A beam which can immobilise people and objects
3. A cure for the common cold
4. A technological fix for the hole in the ozone layer
5. All devices linked to the internet
6. All telephone and video communication via the internet
7. Androids which look exactly like people
8. Being able to freeze your body and defrost when a cure for your disease is
invented
9. Being able to program your dreams
10. Being able to read minds
11. Bionic eyes with a zoom function and ability to record what you see
12. Breeding of extinct animals, including pre-historic ones such as mammoths and
dinosaurs
13. Bridges or tunnels between all continents and between continents and all islands
14. Bullet-proof clothes
15. Car-free cities or countries
16. CGI characters that are indistinguishable from real actors
17. CGI-generated dead actors and famous people appearing in completely life-like
films
18. Colonisation of other planets
19. Communication with life on other planets
20. Complete genetic manipulation of foods
21. Computer chips in your brain
22. Computer-generated music top of the charts
23. Deafness fully curable
24. (Fully/ Exclusively) driverless cars
25. Drugs which cure most criminals of their desire to commit crimes
26. Electricity generation from normal human motion, e.g. from your watch to your
smartphone or from the pavement to the streetlights
27. Enhanced hearing
28. Enhanced intelligence
29. Eradication of mosquitoes from entire cities
30. Eternal life
31. Floating cities
32. Flying cars/ Cheap helicopters
33. Free manipulation of your future baby’s DNA
34. Fully insect-resistant crops
35. GPS tracking of all people by governments
36. Growing of human organs
37. Human cloning
38. ID implanted in your skin
39. Individually targeted television commercials
40. Indoor farming all high-rise buildings
41. Invisibility/ A personal cloaking device
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ETSIADI (UPV)
ENGLISH COURSE Prof. Beatriz Martín Marchante
42. Laser guns with the possibility of stun settings
43. Limitless cheap electrical energy, e.g. from fusion reactors
44. Lunar tourism/ Interplanetary tourism
45. Male birth control pills
46. Memory sticks in your body
47. Mind-operated electronics
48. One world currency
49. Pacemakers inserted in all middle-aged people
50. Perfect computer-based matching with compatible marriage partners
51. Perfect virtual reality
52. Personal DNA sequencing for $100
53. Personal force field shields
54. Recording dreams
55. Robot shop assistants
56. Satellite hotel
57. Satellite launches for $1000
58. Shopping only online/ Disappearance of physical stores
59. Space exploration which is affordable for all countries
60. Teleportation
61. The ability to dig down to the earth’s core
62. The ability to drain and then refill huge areas of the sea
63. The ability to freeze time
64. The complete automation of all work
65. The elimination of absolute poverty
66. The end of cash
67. The first fully computer-generated AI film stars/ television personalities
68. The internet completely replaces television
69. Time travel
70. Two-hourflights to the other side of the world
71. Underwater cities
72. Underwater cruises
73. Underwater hotels
74. Vegetarian substitutes that taste exactly the same as meat
75. Vertical cities in 3000-metre-highskyscrapers
76. Very cheap and safe cosmetic surgery
77. Wars without humans on the battlefield
78. The future of technology discussion questions
79. Are you generally optimistic or pessimistic about how technology will affect our
working lives and leisure in the future? What might the positive and negative
changes be?
80. What are the present trends in technology and its use? Which might continue, and
which might change?
81. What recent invention or piece of technology will have the most impact on our
lives, do you think?
82. How do you picture daily life in 2050 (work and leisure)?
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ETSIADI (UPV)
ENGLISH COURSE Prof. Beatriz Martín Marchante
83. Describe a vision of the future and your partner will say when they think that
might come true. Do you agree on the date?
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