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[L91P1 & L91P2]

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Lesson [L91P1]

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Translation[L91P1]

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Lesson [L91P2]

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Translation[L91P2]

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English USA
Lesson 91, Part 2

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MARTIN:

Are you sometimes wrong about the future?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Of course. Sometimes we know the facts, but we don't know people's feelings. 

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Do you have an example?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Forty years ago, some people predicted food would be different today.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

It is different, isn't it?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

In some ways. But they said we would eat food pills. We wouldn't eat the food we have now. 

 

 

 

MARTIN:

I'm happy we have the same food. I hope we will have the same food in forty years.

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Food will change, of course. It will have to change. There will be too many people.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Can you describe another change?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Communications.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

What kind of communications?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Telephones, television, computers.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

How will they change?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

There will be many new inventions we don't know about today.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

What they will be like?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Telephones, television, and computers will be one machine.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Explain, please.

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Now two people talk on a telephone. Right?

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Sometimes several people talk at one time.

 

 

 

RAMOS:

OK. In the future, you will talk to a person. You will see that person. And you will be able to send messages and pictures at the same time you are talking.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

When can we do that?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

We can do it now. But in ten years, most businesses will have such machines. In fifteen years, we will have them in our homes.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Will you answer some questions about the future?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

If I have answers.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Will we have disease and sickness?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Yes. We will conquer the ones we have now, but we will have new ones.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Will we live on other planets?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

I think so. I can't say when. It needs a lot of money.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

How will we educate our children for the future?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

This is just my opinion. First, we will study other cultures. Second, we will communicate with those cultures. Children in America will talk with children in other countries.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

What about science and technology?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Science and technology are important. But we must study people first.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

OK. First, study other people. Second, talk to them. What then?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Then learn some skills.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

For example?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

How to cook. How to build something. How to paint. How to play a musical instrument. How to take care of an animal or a person.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

That's interesting.

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Finally, children will study for information and facts.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

Why this kind of education?

 

 

 

RAMOS:

Because we know too much about technology and not enough about people.

 

 

 

RAMOS:

The future will be very exciting, Mr. Learner.

 

 

 

MARTIN:

You're very positive, Dr. Ramos. I want to be there.

 

 

English USA L91P2J
Courtesy of Voice of America