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Last but not least, new technology come off as a huge achievement for mankind (= humanity ), and yet it could prove to be (= to be ) a woe if its growth goes unchecked (= uncontrolled ) . scared / too fast a boon / a curse a binary about facial recognition:   PROS / boon   CONS / curse  it promotes security and safety (CCTV cameras)  Social Credit in China : loss of personal liberty? Blacklisting citizens?  it's convenient (smartphone unlocking)  Creation of an Orwellian dystopia? ( Altered Carbon, Black Mirror, ... )  it can be used with social media  possible identity theft about designer babies :  PROS / boon  CONS / curse  helps sterile parents have babies  could lead to baby selection  medical advances  tampering (changing) genes ...

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first and foremost disturbing social credit in China To sum it all up, Black Mirror is a seminal ( very important and in advance, and influential ) series specifically because ( spécifiquement ) it revolves around ( elle tourne autour ) what could happen in the near future, but in a very pessimistic way. Its realistic approach is frighteningly and unfortunately probable. designer babies Facial recognition We didn't have time to write something about the presentations we had, we'll do it next time. orwell pronun. Tape tapping

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Poker face To wrap it all up, it cannot be denied that smartphones are ubiquitous ( everywhere ), and that people have an ambivalent relationship with them. Indeed, they are often presented as essential and unhealthy at the same time.    Poker face progression mobile in erm 19 pauses é faux dém types iPhone Samsung OS now when it was created, it was just for call(ing) social media to wing erm before the phone was not very beautiful after, the phone was more beautiful, like the iPhone X more expensive than before the evoltuinn of the phone, all o fthe people have phones and take pictures ubiquitous I think the phone is good for people but some people are attached to them so it could be dangerous but we need to have a phone because for example, when people are in danger if they diodn't have phone they could die but it's a dangerous for people because people sleep with their phone they can die too or for example children who have phone it's not god...

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To sum it all up, it can indeed be progress and this topic illustrates the notion in so much as  (= because ) these earphones are innovative and enable us (= allow us ) to speak and understand everyone in the whole world. However, there's no denying that it calls into question language learning, since it could very well make it all but (= but ) useless. Cambodian " even an American " a mic [m æɪk] Babel Tower AI It's been 28 years since Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. right, "it has only been 28 years since TBL invented the WWW" (line 5) The beginning of the document praises the creation (célèbre la création) of famous social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Wrong, "... it dramatically changed the way humans live and work today." There's no positive remark about the creation of these networks. (lines 3-4) The document evokes two sides to technology, the YIN and YANG opposites. right, "twenty-first developme...

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Oral Presentation  Magnavox 1972 casual / hardcore all in all, video games play a a key role in our life, it became a big business. We're talking about billion of dollars with one game so imagine with all the video games. With the last generation it took a wider dimension by playing with our friends. All in all, video games play a key role in our lives nowadays. It has become a multi-billion industry. For instance, GTA 5 came out with a record-breaking budget of over $500 million dollars, which was then higher than the most expensive Hollywood movie. Multiplayer games, casual games and more engaging experiences gradually become a mainstay of popular culture. Today, we started working on a new text. Here are the elements we think we understood when we scanned it: It's been 28 years since Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. The beginning of the document praises the creation (célèbre la création) of famous social networks like Facebook or Twitter. The do...