A2 Reading: The Future Is Already Here

Read about the future and fill in the gaps.

What will life be like in the future? People love to it. Some ideas sound crazy, but some are already here.

In 2026, a company started making a robot for people's homes. It can walk, open the fridge and fold clothes. It was a very popular . In just five days, people ordered 10,000 of them!

Today you can buy meat from a lab. take cells from an animal and the meat. Nobody kills the animal. Singapore started to this meat in 2020, and the USA, Israel and Australia did the same later.

Doctors are also doing amazing things. In 2025, a man in the USA got a from a pig. It worked for 271 days! Some people who cannot move their arms or legs now have a small computer chip in their . They can use a computer just by thinking.

One inventor, Ray Kurzweil, thinks that in the 2030s, tiny robots will our brains to the internet. He also thinks people will live . Many scientists say this will never happen. What do you think?