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For decades,the smart home has been a mainstay in pop culture,from Disney’s 1999 flick SmartHouse,in which an artificially intelligent home takes on the personality of a mother,to the retro high-tech home of TheJetsons.
Now,we’ve got their smart watches and digital assistants.In our homes,devices like smart doorbells identify friends or strangers at the door,while smart lights can be programmed to shift their colors based on weather.When we plan meals for the week,a smart refrigerator photographs what’s left in the fridge and makes suggestions based on our diets.
We could see a future in which electronics exist everywhere,interconnected and responsive parts of our homes,and we’re on the point of making this vision a reality.The exploding field of ambient technology promises innovative,easily-used electronics that fade into the background sound of our lives.“Soon,you’re going to have systems that will be proactive,” said Joseph Paradiso,a professor at MIT.Our devices are “going to see and hear as we do,and they’re going to be suggesting and prompting”.
But all of this innovation could come at a cost:Our privacy.And in the current situation,it’s a price consumers may be unwilling to pay.These fears aren’t entirely unfounded.Massive breaches to major websites have compromised the data of hundreds of millions of people in the past few years,and the comprehensive data ambient technology relies on will include far more than our addresses and credit card numbers.The digital assistant that will be able to identify when you’ll be most attentive for a Spanish lesson—a function that Paradiso said is being heavily researched—will have the type of information that could be used to control you.
Identifying these problems will become crucial as more people opt in to giving their tasks to ambient technology.In a world with billions and billions of connected devices that learn us in detail to make our lives more efficient,it will be harder to opt out.
1.How is the second paragraph developed?
A.By making a comparison.
B.By analyzing causes.
C.By giving examples.
D.By following the order of time.
2.What is the third paragraph about?
A.The side effects of electronics on daily life.
B.The electronic life in future.
C.The reasons for the prevalence of the smart home.
D.The risk of information disclosure on the Internet.
3.What does the underlined word “compromised” in paragraph 4 mean?
A.Endangered. B.Updated.
C.Rearranged. D.Deleted.
4.In which section of a website may this text appear?
A.Entertainment. B.Health.
C.Education. D.Science.
