#8 Future: China’s Tech City

▶️ Here’s a documentary by Bloomberg about one of 🇨🇳China’s megacities that many people outside China have never heard of. Shenzhen was a small fishing town just 40 years ago – today it is home to some 18 million people, more than double the population of neighbouring Hong Kong. But it is much more than that. It is China’s Silicon Valley because it’s full of tech companies and has the world’s biggest hardware manufacturing base. See what living there is like!

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👉@afandi_english👈 #future

#43 Movie Time: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama based on George Orwell’s dystopian (=having a bad vision of the future) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it in 1948, imagining what the world might be like in 1984 if things go very wrong. In this bad future people are kept in poverty and ignorance. They are brainwashed and under government surveillance (=watching and checking people) at all times. Even their language is changed to prevent them from thinking. Nineteen Eighty-Four serves as a warning for people to defend their freedom. In our age of technology, crises and mass hysteria (=many people getting crazy about sth) Orwell’s novel is ever more relevant.

Beware of (=warning sb to be careful) some strong scenes.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama #future

#44 Movie Time: Stowaway (2021)

▶️ Today’s film is a science fiction drama about a Mars mission (=official travel, esp. by the military or astronauts) that runs into trouble after they discover an unconscious (=not awake, not moving) man in their space ship. Watch how they struggle to keep enough oxygen for their long trip.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #future #drama

#9 Future: Working at Amazon

▶️ If you work at an Amazon warehouse (=building to store goods) of the future you face some pretty harsh (=tough, difficult) rules. The company uses high-tech to record every minute of “time off task” – the time that you spend not actually working. Is this the future of work?

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👉@afandi_english👈 #future

#10 Future: A world without cash

▶️ Some countries are more advanced than others but one trend can be seen everywhere – cashless payments are becoming more popular. And one day we will probably live in a cashless world.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #future

#11 Future: Geoengineering

▶️ As the globe is getting warmer scientists are developing technology to cool us down. However, there’s no solution without major risks.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #future

#50 Movie Time: The Social Dilemma (2020)

▶️ Today’s film is something between a documentary and a drama. In it, tech industry insiders report how social media has turned from a blessing into something evil, causing many social and personal problems. An absolute must-watch for concerned citizens (=people who are worried about society)!

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #documentary #future

#51 Movie Time: Idiocracy (2006)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy set in the future. The basic idea is that in our present times intelligent, educated people tend to have less children than unintelligent people. This means that in the future there will be less and less intelligent people. Watch just how bad things could turn out (=become) for humanity.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy #future

#43 Know Your World: ChatGPT

▶️ AI has been a hot topic for a while now and we may be witnessing (=seeing sth happening) a real breakthrough (=big and sudden improvement) these days as AI is now ever more (=much more than before) interactive and even able to compose (=create) original texts.

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👉 Try out the bot: @GPTtg_bot

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary #future

#12 Future: A linear city

▶️ The world’s most futuristic city is under construction in 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia. It’s being built in a straight line that stretches (=has a length of) over 170 kilometres. The smart city will be called “The Line” and is set to (=planned to) be completed by 2030.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #future #documentary

#13 Future: Meat from the lab

▶️ Is this meat real or fake? Yes it’s meat but no, it’s no it’s not from a slaughtered (=killed for meat) animal. Lab (=laboratory) meat solves a lot of problems but at the same time raises a lot of questions. Watch this report from 🇮🇱Israel.

👉@afandi_english👈 #future #know_your_world

#50 Know Your World: How to worry wisely about AI

▶️ Humanity is facing the decision of how to deal with ever smarter artificial intelligence. Read this recent article from the Economist to find out what’s happening.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #future

#14 Future: Getting chipped

▶️ Here’s a young lady in 🇦🇺Australia who is really happy to have a microchip under her skin that helps her open doors, make payments and be identified in an emergency.

Check out an earlier post about microchipping in 🇸🇪Sweden.

👉@afandi_english👈 #future #know_your_world

▶️ Afandi English is over 3 years old now and there’s a ton of stuff you’ve missed. Here are some hashtags for posts about knowledge:

#article
Stay informed about the world.

#economist
Grab information and vocab from the mother of news magazines.

#future
Feel the world of tomorrow even today.

#infographic
Let your eye travel across important topics.

#inspiration
See the world in a new light.

#know_your_world
Understand today’s world.

#know_yourself
Know thyself and live well.

#maps
Realise reality with maps.

#psychology
See the human nature so no one can fool you.

#talk
Hear what experts have to say in TED Talks, etc.

#talking_point
Sharpen your mind with controversies.

#travel
Travel the world while staring at your phone.

#uni_vocab
Get to grips with key concepts in higher education.

#wikipedia
Feel the weirdness of this world.

#world_englishes
Be sure you know really know the world’s first language.

#world_food
Check out some lovely meals that you may prepare at home, too.