What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on how information technology will transform our lives and our world in the new century.
The author, Michael Dertouzos, stands (1) from many of the forecasters and commentators who bombard us daily with (2) of this future. For twenty years he has led one of the world’s (3) research laboratories, whose members have brought the world (4) computers, the Ether Net, and start-up companies.
As a visionary, his (5) have been on the mark: In 1981, he described the (6) of an Information Marketplace as "a twenty-first-century village marketplace where people and computers buy, sell, and freely exchange information and information services." That’s a (7) description of the Internet as we know it today.
Naturally, we do not agree on all the (8) ways the new world will (9) or affect us. This is as it
A. empirical
B. wearisome
C. tentative
D. pioneering
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