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Let's have a look at what science and
technology are preparing for us in the future.
Can you imagine spending your holidays in
a space hotel, having your home totally
5 computerised? What about new bones,
veins and skin grown from your body cells?
Homes of the Future
If you like comfort, you will find it in the model
home designed for the future. This model house
will be wired for convenience, literally. Computer
systems will link rooms, gadgets and appliances
to each other and all this will be connected to the
30 Internet.
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Space Resorts
Some aerospace companies are setting
up a Space Travel and Tourism Division as
At the entrance, a security TV doorphone will
record a picture of each visitor and it will transmit
the image to monitors throughout the house. In
the kitchen, appliances from the fridge to the
35 microwave oven will be programmed to order from
a food delivery service and to cook recipes
selected from the Internet.
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Association. One of the latest ideas is that in
a few years' time you will be able to spend
your vacation in a space hotel built with
recycled space shuttle fuel tanks. An
15 onboard oxygen system will let guests
breathe easily. The hotel will grow all its
food on board hydroponically (in water
containing dissolved nutrients). As soon as
the guests get there, they will have an Earth-
20 like "gravity Zone" for the "space-sick." How
does it sound? Will you be one of the guests
to spend your holidays orbiting 322
kilometres above the Earth?
Your Body
Sooner than you think, scientists will grow new
40 heart valves from your own cells in laboratories.
New veins and arteries will grow directly from a
patient's own cells to avoid immune-system
rejection. Within 10 to 20 years, laboratories will
be ready to transplant hearts, livers and kidneys
45 routinely-all grown from hนman tissue in the lab.
AFTER READING
5 What do these words refer to? They are
underlined in the text.
4 True or false? Quote the text.
1 The space hotel will be built with recycled
material.
1 its (paragraph 2)
2 they (paragraph 2)
3 it (paragraph 3)
4 it (paragraph 4)
2 In the house of the future, your fridge
will be connected to the Internet.
3 There is little chance that arteries will
grow from patients' cells.
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