Many people want to know how the future world will be.

When they dream about the future, many people like to think of having a flying car. With such a car, they could fly 480 km an hour without traffic lights. However, some people believe there will be problems with traffic control. If flying cars become popular, there is likely to be air traffic jam (堵塞). What will also happen if the cars stop working? They must face these problems if flying cars are used in the future.

3D printing (印刷) is another new technology with exciting possibilities. 3D printers are used to build an object with liquid plastic. They build the object layer (层) by layer until it is done. Many car companies (公司) are now using 3D printers to make life — size models of car parts, and medical companies use the technology to make man — made body parts. As they move into the future, 3D printing will greatly change the way they shop, the way they produce goods and the way they treat illness. 3D printers are useful in many ways, but such equipment will be very expensive.

Looking ahead, they will be able to fly to work or print out new shoes. There are some problems to solve before this is possible, but they can certainly dream of a world where technology makes life easier and safer for millions of people.

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Technology in the Workplace

There are more and more computers in the world. They are doing many jobs for us. 【小题1】

Chefs.

Can robots cook? The answer to this question is: not yet. 【小题2】 But an AI machine has been trained to cook dishes. If you give it information about the dishes you want to cook, it will give you some ideas for different meals.

Police Offices

Have you seen the film RoboCop? We may soon see these robot police officers on the streets. These officers cannot catch bad men. However, people can report the information about these bad men to these police officers. 【小题3】 These robot police officers are made to be friendly, so they will shake hands with people.

Reporters

【小题4】 If the answer is yes, you need to know that reporters may lose their jobs to robots in the future. However, robots are not good at being creative. They aren’t able to write descriptive articles.

Trailer Makers

The first AI film trailer (预告片) has been made by a computer. The supercomputer learned how to make one by looking at 100 trailers from other films. Instead of taking 10 to 30 days to make the trailer, it only took 24 hours. 【小题5】

It started with a trip to the waste transport station.In 2011, Miranda Wang visited a waste transport station in her hometown of Vancouver. She and her friend Jeanny Yao, now a senior at the University of Toronto, were shocked to see the huge amount of plastic in the station.So they decided to do something. As seniors in high school, they read through the hundreds of pages of scientific papers and had an idea: find bacteria ( 细菌 ) that can degrade ( 降解 ) plastic. The University of British Columbia invited Wang and Yao to use their lab space to start working on their project.Now four years in, Wang and Yao finally made it. They are turning their high school science project into a multi-million dollar, award-winning business. They set up BioCellection last May, a company that takes plastic pollution out of the ocean and then uses bacteria to break down these plastics into a product used in the textile (纺织) industry. “Basically, we recycle ocean plastic pollution into usable materials,” Wang said.

BioCellection recently won the Grand Prize in Pennvention. It was also the top undergraduate team and the winner of the Social Impact Prize in the Wharton Undergraduate Business Plan Competition.

Though Wang and Yao have been developing their idea throughout college, this year they take their project to the next level, getting two patents ( 专利 ) and nearly $300,000 in funding. BioCellection makes money by both clearing plastic from the ocean and selling the product produced from the waste plastic. Under their business plan, BioCellection aims to become a $100 million company, taking 243,000 tons of plastic out of the ocean every year. “The most sustainable (可持续的) technology comes from sustainable business,”they said.

However, the pair's main focus is on the influence of this technology. “We hope that the younger generation would never see plastic pollution.” They said.