In a few years, it will be possible to tell your home robot to get a piece of bread for you.

Future robots will carry water to water plants.

A home robot will find out fire, smoke(烟）and other dangers easily. Every night the robot will make its rounds to make sure that everything is right.

A robot will help us look after our children well while we are not at home.

Have you ever bought a blind box and opened it with excitement? It is reported that blind boxes are getting more and more popular in the big cities in China.

Blind boxes, or “manghe” in Chinese, are always a collection of figurines (人形的小雕像) sold in the same boxes. The figurines are specially designed based on characters from the cartoons or superheroes in the movies. Each is put randomly (随机地) in a sealed (密封的) box so that the buyers, who do not know what is inside, will have a feeling of surprise and expectation and be willing to buy one after another to get a full set.

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. ”

This is a famous line in an American movie, Forrest Gump (1994). It seems to be the idea of opening the blind boxes, but in fact, they first appeared in Japan and they were invented after the “lucky bags”. The bags were little ones filled with toys or clothes out of fashion. People could get the bag at much lower price than the total price of the things in it. But you couldn’t know what you were buying either.

“Now the blind boxes have taken the young market by storm and you can see blind box stores almost everywhere downtown,” said Victor, a blind box designer.” Office ladies and college students in the cities are buying most of the boxes. Females pay for 62.6 percent of them. They like to buy cute things to decorate their desks and opening the bores is a great way to free themselves from stress

“The blind boxes can blind people.” Prof. Lee from a university is studying the new fashion. “The lovers often spend too much collecting all the figurines of a certain set and some of them are crazy about the secret design (隐藏款) and make it far more expensive. It’s really a waste of money and people may get more stressed. ”

Let’s be honest: People aren’t always great drivers. They get tired and make mistakes. Most people agree that safe and dependable driverless cars will be put into use in a few years.

Here’s what I think will happen next: The earliest use of driverless cars will be owned by companies like Uber or Lyft. They will be rapidly accepted because they can save time for people, lower the cost and be faster than human driving.

The benefits of driverless cars are so clear in many ways: They will be healthy, time-saving, carrying more passengers and having low consumption (消耗). But I think the biggest impact will be on our physical environment. I think the physical environment hasn’t changed that much these years, though the way we work and communicate has changed greatly thanks to the technology. Sure, buildings have more glass and cars have changed a lot, but if you compare two photos from 50 years ago and today, it’s often hard to find much difference in the environment, except a few clothing choices and smartphones.

With the use of driverless cars, certain things will become old-fashioned, such as parking lots (停车场), road signs and traffic lights. Then more bedrooms, playrooms and exercise rooms will be built. Saying goodbye to these things will cut the cost of housing and improve our life.