FUTURE TRENDS PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH IN USE FOR COMPUTER

 

PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH IN USE FOR COMPUTER 32.FUTURE TRENDS

 

A Smaller and faster Nanotechnology, the science of creating and using materials or devices at molecular and atomic sizes, is going to represent a new technological revolution. These devices will fall in the range of 1 nanometre, which is equal to one billionth of a metre, to 100 nanometres (nm). Nanobots, robots forms from molecules or molecular components, will be used in medicine to control and diagnose diseases. For example, they will be injected and will move through blood vessels destroying cholesterol molecules or cancer.   B Computers everywhere: human-centred technologies The relationship between people and computers will be closer.   EXERCISES 32.1 Read these extracts and replace the words in italics with words in A opposite. 1. A computer of this type is a molecular computer that works biochemically. It ‘computes’ using enzymes that cause chain reactions. 2. In a computer of this type, data is processed by exploiting the strange qualities of quantum physics; the building blocks of computation are not transistors but cages atoms or qbits. 32.2 Write a caption under each picture illustrating the future trends from B opposite. 32.3 Match the terms with their definitions. 1 quantum bits a a microchip made with organic materials 2 DNA biochips b the speed at which CPU processes instructions

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