北师大版高中英语模块11--Unit32(1)-2
时间：2018-12-13 作者：英语课 分类：北师大版高中英语模块11(选修)
[00:01.26]GLOBAL GAMES
[00:03.13]Children of the future will never be able to
[00:05.65]complain that there's no one to play with.
[00:07.99]Equipped with a virtual reality headset,
[00:10.45]this twelve-year-old is taking part
[00:12.63]in global games,
[00:14.08]here a medieval jousting 1 tournament.
[00:16.46]His opponent,selected for him by the computer,
[00:19.47]lives on the other side of the world!
[00:22.46]HOLOGRAPHIC CONFERENCING
[00:24.65]Holographic conferencing and virtual reality
[00:27.11]meetings will allow people to interact
[00:29.70]with colleagues and clients via computer,
[00:32.43]without needing to leave the comfort
[00:34.31]of their own homes.
[00:35.98]Through her headset this woman sees a virtual
[00:38.63]meeting with several people sitting around
[00:40.63]a table.
[00:41.35]The people involved live all over Europe.
[00:44.61]But what will it all mean?
[00:47.71]1"Teleworking and computer conferencing
[00:50.88]will mean that a lot more people will either
[00:53.16]work freelance from home,
[00:55.39]or on flexible short-term contracts.
[00:58.17]The old concept of 'jobs or life'
[01:00.60]will soon be a thing of the past."
[01:03.58]2"Highly-skilled professionals will be
[01:06.38]under pressure to work longer and longer hours,
[01:09.39]while much of the mundane 2 work
[01:11.24]will be done by machines,
[01:13.13]leading to high unemployment amongst
[01:15.22]unskilled worked.
[01:17.08]By 2050,we are going to have a small number
[01:19.46]of hardworking rich
[01:21.09]and a vast majority of idle poor."
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