Discuss the following.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 451.

Listen to the text about the information society and complete the gaps with suitable information.

Listen to the text and speak about its main idea.

· (1) ……………., and (2) ……………….. are making the world smaller and faster.

· The growth in telecommunications leads to starting a real (3) ………………… .

· Around the world, there are people who don't understand the language that (4) ……………… of the information is written in.

· The contrast between countries that have information technology and those that don't have is called (5) ………………. .

· The United Nations aims at making the information society a (6) ……………… for more of the developing world.

· In the nearest future the United Nations plans to provide 50% of the world's population with (7) ……………… from educational institutions, health and cultural centres.

· The United Nations' idea about information society has some (8) ……………… .

· The cyber cities are situated in (9) ……………….. .

· The domain name system (DNS) does not control (10) ……………….

1. What are positive and negative effects of the spread of technology?

2. Can the United Nations' plan to create the information society for all become the reality? What difficulties may occur?

3. What do you think about the freedom of information?

4. How can technology and the spread of information influence the job market?

5. How can the exchange of information keep local culture alive if most of that information is only in one language? What is the role of the English language in the information society?