What Will Be is an impressive and visionary guide to the future, filled with insights on h

ow information technology will transform. our lives and our world in the new century.

The author, Michael Dertouzos, stands (1)_____ from many of the forecasters and commentators who bombard us daily with (2)_____ of this future. For twenty years he has led one of the world's (3)_____ research laboratories, whose members have brought the world (4)_____ computers, the Ether Net, and start-up companies.

As a visionary, his (5)_____ have been on the mark: In 1981, he described the (6)_____ of an Information Marketplace as "a twenty-first-century village marketplace where people and computers buy, sell, and freely exchange information and information services." That's a (7)_____ description of the Internet as we know it today.

Naturally, we do not agree on all the (8)_____ ways the new world will (9)_____ or affect us. This is as it should be. There is plenty of room for (10)_____ ideas and debate concerning the rich and promising setting ahead. What's more important is that people become (11)_____, and form. their own opinions, about the changes (12)_____.

When it (13)_____ to that future world, what we do (14)_____ far outweighs our differences New businesses will be created and new (15)_____ will be made in the (16)_____ areas of activity this book describes. More important, radical changes in hardware, software, and infrastructure will (17)_____ in ways large and small our social lives, our families, our jobs, our health, our environment, our economy, and even the (18)_____ we see for ourselves in the universe. Whoever (19)_____ the coming Information Revolution？—that's (20)_____ all of us—needs to know What Will Be.

A．beyond

B．behind

C．apart

D．out