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MARTIN: |
Are
you sometimes wrong about the future? |
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RAMOS: |
Of
course. Sometimes we know the facts, but we don't know people's
feelings. |
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MARTIN: |
Do
you have an example? |
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RAMOS: |
Forty years ago, some people predicted food would be different
today. |
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MARTIN: |
It
is different, isn't it? |
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RAMOS: |
In
some ways. But they said we would eat food pills. We wouldn't eat
the food we have now. |
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MARTIN: |
I'm
happy we have the same food. I hope we will have the same food in
forty years. |
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RAMOS: |
Food will change, of course. It will have to change. There will be
too many people. |
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MARTIN: |
Can
you describe another change? |
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RAMOS: |
Communications. |
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MARTIN: |
What kind of communications? |
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RAMOS: |
Telephones, television, computers. |
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MARTIN: |
How
will they change? |
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RAMOS: |
There will be many new inventions we don't know about today. |
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MARTIN: |
What they will be like? |
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RAMOS: |
Telephones, television, and computers will be one machine. |
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MARTIN: |
Explain, please. |
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RAMOS: |
Now
two people talk on a telephone. Right? |
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MARTIN: |
Sometimes several people talk at one time. |
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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. |
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MARTIN: |
When can we do that? |
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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. |
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MARTIN: |
Will you answer some questions about the future? |
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RAMOS: |
If
I have answers. |
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MARTIN: |
Will we have disease and sickness? |
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RAMOS: |
Yes. We will conquer the ones we have now, but we will have new
ones. |
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MARTIN: |
Will we live on other planets? |
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RAMOS: |
I
think so. I can't say when. It needs a lot of money. |
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MARTIN: |
How
will we educate our children for the future? |
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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. |
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MARTIN: |
What about science and technology? |
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RAMOS: |
Science and technology are important. But we must study people
first. |
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MARTIN: |
OK.
First, study other people. Second, talk to them. What then? |
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RAMOS: |
Then learn some skills. |
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MARTIN: |
For
example? |
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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. |
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MARTIN: |
That's interesting. |
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RAMOS: |
Finally, children will study for information and facts. |
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MARTIN: |
Why
this kind of education? |
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RAMOS: |
Because we know too much about technology and not enough about
people. |
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RAMOS: |
The
future will be very exciting, Mr. Learner. |
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MARTIN: |
You're very positive, Dr. Ramos. I want to be there. |
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