#7 Future: Delivery Bots

▶️ Here’s what the future of delivery could look like – food or goods ordered online arrives at our doorstep by itself. Watch some of the prototypes (=new design of a machine) being tested now.

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#39 Movie Time: Black Mirror – Nosedive (2016)

▶️ Today’s movie is a dystopian (=of a bad future) tragicomedy (=a film that is funny and sad at the same time). It shows us what the future could be like if our lives are guided completely by social media. We also get to think what a social credit system – in one form a reality in China already – could look like in the future.

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#8 Future: China’s Tech City

▶️ Here’s a documentary by Bloomberg about one of 🇨🇳China’s megacities that many people outside China have never heard of. Shenzhen was a small fishing town just 40 years ago – today it is home to some 18 million people, more than double the population of neighbouring Hong Kong. But it is much more than that. It is China’s Silicon Valley because it’s full of tech companies and has the world’s biggest hardware manufacturing base. See what living there is like!

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#43 Movie Time: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama based on George Orwell’s dystopian (=having a bad vision of the future) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it in 1948, imagining what the world might be like in 1984 if things go very wrong. In this bad future people are kept in poverty and ignorance. They are brainwashed and under government surveillance (=watching and checking people) at all times. Even their language is changed to prevent them from thinking. Nineteen Eighty-Four serves as a warning for people to defend their freedom. In our age of technology, crises and mass hysteria (=many people getting crazy about sth) Orwell’s novel is ever more relevant.

Beware of (=warning sb to be careful) some strong scenes.

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#44 Movie Time: Stowaway (2021)

▶️ Today’s film is a science fiction drama about a Mars mission (=official travel, esp. by the military or astronauts) that runs into trouble after they discover an unconscious (=not awake, not moving) man in their space ship. Watch how they struggle to keep enough oxygen for their long trip.

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#9 Future: Working at Amazon

▶️ If you work at an Amazon warehouse (=building to store goods) of the future you face some pretty harsh (=tough, difficult) rules. The company uses high-tech to record every minute of “time off task” – the time that you spend not actually working. Is this the future of work?

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#10 Future: A world without cash

▶️ Some countries are more advanced than others but one trend can be seen everywhere – cashless payments are becoming more popular. And one day we will probably live in a cashless world.

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#11 Future: Geoengineering

▶️ As the globe is getting warmer scientists are developing technology to cool us down. However, there’s no solution without major risks.

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#50 Movie Time: The Social Dilemma (2020)

▶️ Today’s film is something between a documentary and a drama. In it, tech industry insiders report how social media has turned from a blessing into something evil, causing many social and personal problems. An absolute must-watch for concerned citizens (=people who are worried about society)!

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#51 Movie Time: Idiocracy (2006)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy set in the future. The basic idea is that in our present times intelligent, educated people tend to have less children than unintelligent people. This means that in the future there will be less and less intelligent people. Watch just how bad things could turn out (=become) for humanity.

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