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- 2014, Is the Future now?
- Tech giants woo 15-year-old whizzkid
- Korea’s sharp increase in per capita income tax
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2014 - is the future now?
Following the unveiling of a series of weird and wonderful gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014, Vital Findings has unveiled an infographic to ask if the future really is now.
No specific conclusion can be drawn from the infographic, which found in some ways we are (in terms of wearable technology and video communication), but lack of jetpacks let us down.
Never mind all that, when will we get expanding instant pizzas like in Back to the Future 2?
Source: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/01/23/infographic-2014-future-now
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Q1. From the infographic, you can find various newly developed technologies.
Among them, what kinds of thch. have you used before? Why did you use it?
Q2. Have you ever watched the movie 'Back to the future' series?
From the movie, plz share any tech. which were intresting to you !
Q3. Can you imagine any inovative ideas for the next 50 years?
What kinds of tech. do you expect to see in the Future?
Tech giants woo 15-year-old whizzkid (26th January, 2015)
Tech giants Facebook and Google are in competition to attract the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian teenager Ben Pasternak sparked the interest of the companies after he designed an app for a game called Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch in October. The addictive game managed to climb higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook's internship department for a tour of the company's headquarters in California. He is also being wooed by Google, whose vice president has asked him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their future developers.
Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs accepted on a Google and MIT sponsored event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten countries across the world. They will collaborate on a 36-hour project to create a sellable product. They will also listen to featured speakers from the technology and hacking world. Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and clearly ambitious. He has shown the world that age is just a number." He added that: "[Pasternak's] iPhone app was extremely impressive and if we were to guess, we would never imagine it was run by a 15-year-old."
Read more: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1501/150126-whizzkid.html#ixzz3PwEKMEF2
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Q1. How good is it that 15-year-olds can now make it in business?
What do you think Ben's future will be like?
Q2. How do young people get so good at coding and making apps?
How important or useful is it to be able to code?
Q3. What was the best thing you did as a high-schooler?
Q4. What do you think of hacking? What are the good things that hackers do?
Q5. What's your favourite app and why?
Q6. Would it be better to work for Facebook or Google?
Q7. If you became an entrepreneur, what field would you enter?
Korea’s sharp increase in per capita income tax
Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150126001208
<Questions>
Q1. How do you think about the increase of income tax in Korea ?
Q2. If the governemnt gurantee better welfare system instead of increasing tax system
like european conturies, would you accept the governmental policy?
Q3. What kinds of welfare system do you expect to be offered by government?