B2 Reading: Will We Live Forever?
Read the article about the future and fill in the gaps.
People have always wanted to know what the future holds. In the past, they paid fortune tellers to look into a . Today we ask scientists and tech companies, and their answers can be just as surprising.
Some changes arrive faster than anyone expected. In April 2026, four astronauts flew around the Moon, the first people to go there since 1972, and travelled further from Earth than any humans before them. It was a historic , and NASA now plans to land astronauts on the Moon again in 2028.
Food is changing too. In 2020, Singapore became the first country to the sale of meat grown from animal cells. The United States followed in 2023, Israel in 2024 and Australia in 2025. For now, lab-grown meat is expensive and hard to find, but supporters believe that it could replace much of the meat from farms.
Medicine has also seen some remarkable . In January 2025, surgeons in Boston gave a 66-year-old man a kidney from a gene-edited pig. It worked for a record 271 days, until he could receive a human kidney. Meanwhile, brain implants are allowing people who cannot move their arms or legs to control computers just by thinking.
Then there are the bolder . The inventor Ray Kurzweil believes that in the 2030s, tiny robots will travel through our blood into the brain and connect it to the internet, and that one day people could upload their minds and live forever as software. Many scientists are . They say we still understand far too little about the brain, and that the idea is .
So, will we live forever? Nobody knows. Some inventions that seemed are now part of daily life: you can already pre-order a humanoid robot to help around the house. The flying car, on the other hand, is still waiting. Perhaps the safest is that the future will surprise us. As always, only .
Some changes arrive faster than anyone expected. In April 2026, four astronauts flew around the Moon, the first people to go there since 1972, and travelled further from Earth than any humans before them. It was a historic , and NASA now plans to land astronauts on the Moon again in 2028.
Food is changing too. In 2020, Singapore became the first country to the sale of meat grown from animal cells. The United States followed in 2023, Israel in 2024 and Australia in 2025. For now, lab-grown meat is expensive and hard to find, but supporters believe that it could replace much of the meat from farms.
Medicine has also seen some remarkable . In January 2025, surgeons in Boston gave a 66-year-old man a kidney from a gene-edited pig. It worked for a record 271 days, until he could receive a human kidney. Meanwhile, brain implants are allowing people who cannot move their arms or legs to control computers just by thinking.
Then there are the bolder . The inventor Ray Kurzweil believes that in the 2030s, tiny robots will travel through our blood into the brain and connect it to the internet, and that one day people could upload their minds and live forever as software. Many scientists are . They say we still understand far too little about the brain, and that the idea is .
So, will we live forever? Nobody knows. Some inventions that seemed are now part of daily life: you can already pre-order a humanoid robot to help around the house. The flying car, on the other hand, is still waiting. Perhaps the safest is that the future will surprise us. As always, only .