Unit 1 Move Over, Big Brother Reading Skills: Reading Magazine Articles Reading Skills: Reading Technical Prose Unit 2 When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns Writing Skills: Abstract Unit 3 At What Cost Beauty Writing Skills: Research Paper (1) Unit 4 Too Much Too Soon Writing Skills: Research Paper (2) Unit 5 Universities Under Threat Writing Skills: Research Paper (3) Unit 6 Kids Moving Back in After College?—Smart Career Move Writing Skills: Letter Writing Skills: Curriculum Vitae (CV) Unit 7 Think Different Translation Skills: Translation of Vocabulary: Word Classes Unit 8 How to Live and Love in the 21st Century Translation Skills: Subordinate Clauses (1)—Nominal Clauses Unit 9 The Global Food Crisis Translation Skills: Subordinate Clauses (2)—Attributive Clauses Unit 10 How Reading Makes Us More Human Translation Skills: Subordinate Clauses (3)—Adverbial Clauses Unit 11 The New Science of Happiness Translation Skills: Long Sentences Unit 12 A Time for Men to Stand Up Translation Skills: Technical Translation Self-assessment Test Appendix
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Living without privacy, even in his bedroom, was no problem for Louis XIV. In fact, it was a way for the French king to demonstrate his absolute authority over even the most powerful members of the aristocracy. Each morning, they gathered to see the Sun King get up, pray, perform his bodily functions, choose his wig and so on. Will this past—life without privacy—be our future? Many futurists, sciencefiction writers and privacy advocates believe so. Big Brother, they have long warned, is watching. Closed-circuit television cameras often track your moves; your mobile phone reveals your location; your transit pass and credit cards leave digital trails. Now there is the possibility that citizens are being watched. But in the past few years, something strange has happened. Thanks to the spread of mobile phones, digital cameras and the internet, surveillance technology has become far more widely available. Bruce Schneier, a security guru, argues that a combination of forces—the miniaturisation of surveillance technologies, the falling price of digital storage and ever more sophisticated systems able to sort through large amounts of information—means that “surveillance abilities that used to be limited to governments are now, or soon will be, in the hands of everyone.”
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