Future trends

4. Discussion

1. Make a list of innovations that the author of the article describes.
2. Are these innovations likely or unlikely to appear? Prove your opinion by giving examples of gadgets, their features or research that can bring about these innovations.
3. Which of the mentioned innovations would you like to see in everyday life? Why?
4. The article was published in 2008, so it presents the vision of the future characteristic of that time. Has anything changed due to the development of technology since that time? How?
5. Read the quote below about predicting the future. Do you agree with it? Support your point of view with arguments and examples.
6. "Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy."- Lord John Browne, Chairman of BP.