G. a place on a computer system where users can read messages and add their own
Activity 3. Find these words and phrases in the text, and try to guess their meaning from the context: render sth obsolete, landline, simulations, payroll management, desktop publishing, office automation, midair collisions, hospital-bed-beeping systems, assistive technology, impairment, streaming television.
Activity 4. Make up phrases by matching the words in A with those in B:
A. run, postal, digital, landline, perform, vital
B. role, phone, surgery, mail, simulations, generation
Activity 5. Complete the following sentences with the words from the text:
1) Nowadays songs, e-books, movies are just a c_____ away.
2) Communication is the c_____ (base, foundation) of information technology.
3) Our universities are i_____ the European educational system into their practice.
4) According to Bill Gates, computers are the most e_____ tools humanity has ever created.
5) Interactive whiteboards a_____ holding different instruction modes such as presentations.