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1.C What we need to know is whether new means of communication will be available in the future and whether they will change the quality of our life.
2.A If we don’t do anything about aggression promoting TV programmes, Internet and mobile phone addictions today, it might be too late tomorrow.
3.G It is always possible that new ways of keeping in touch will appear and replace the old ones.
4.E Sometimes we take it for granted that our life is becoming more and more comfortable and successful with all the new means of communication and new devices – plasma TVs, portable computers, wireless Internet and smart phones.
5.H Though it seems as if everything has already been created, inventors surprise us with new gadgets every year.
6.D When we think about the future, we imagine something really revolutionary like time travel or telepathy.
7.I We don’t know what can be invented in 10, 20 or 50 years from now.
8.B But the thing that worries many of us most is what we are going to do about the changes that all these new inventions bring along and how they will affect our lives.
9.F It appears that there is a contradiction between the advantages of new technologies and the disadvantages we can’t help noticing