WORLD OF WONDERSA BRAVE NEW WORLD
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Anthony Sellick
John Barton
Ai Ogasawara

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World of Wonders: A Brave New World
Copyright © 2019 by Anthony Sellick, John Barton, Ai Ogasawara
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Preface
World of Wonders: A Brave New World is the third in a series of books
looking at a variety of important trends that are shaping the modernworld. Each of the chapters examines a topic or issue that affects ourlives, or which will change our lives in the future. We hope that you
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about these topics and issues.
The topics covered in the 20 essays range widely and are grouped into
four sections: the worlds of culture and society, science and technology,
business and economics, and politics and international relations. Thetopics are drawn from a number of areas ranging from one of the world’s
favorite toys (Lego), to the importance of taking part in democraticelections. We hope that having read these essays, you will actively seek
to develop your own views on the issues raised in this book, and that you
will debate them vigorously.
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that are presented to test your comprehension of the essays. There isalso a summary exercise for every chapter.
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inevitable that by the time the book is published, some things may havechanged.
We sincerely hope you enjoy the book.
Anthony Sellickiii

Contents
The World of Culture and Society
Chapter 1

Building Blocks, Building Minds

Chapter 2

Faster, Higher, Stronger

Chapter 3

Do You Hulu?

Chapter 4

A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen Wherever She Wants

Chapter 5

The Internet of Things

The Amazing Success of Lego

The World’s Most Extreme Sports
The Future of Television

Gender Equality

This Changes Everything

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The World of Science and Technology
Chapter 6

The Supercomputer in Your Pocket

Chapter 7

Land, Sea, and Air

Chapter 8

Forever Young

Chapter 9

Just Forget It!

How Cell Phones Are Changing the WorldHow Drones Are Changing our LivesThe Quest for Eternal YouthThe Science of Rewriting Memories

Chapter 10 I Am Who I Am
Sex, Sexuality, and Genderiv

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The World of Business and Economics
Chapter 11 Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit
Collaborative Consumption and the Sharing Economy

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Chapter 12 More Than eMoney
What Is the Blockchain?

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Chapter 13 Permanently Part-TimeIs the Gig Economy the Future of Work?

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Chapter 14 Driven to Succeed
The Amazing Story of Elon Musk

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Chapter 15 The Clanking Masses
Will a Robot Take Your Job?

80The World of Politics and International Relations
Chapter 16 It’s None of Your Business!
Why Privacy Is Important

85

Chapter 17 I’ll See You in Court!
What Is the Rule of Law?

91

Chapter 18 Just a Face in the Crowd?
What Does Equality Really Mean?

96

Chapter 19 Freedom of the Press Means Freedom of the People
The Danger of Fake News

101

Chapter 20 One in a Million
Why Your Vote Counts

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Compiled References by Chapter

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Building Blocks, Building Minds – The Amazing Success of Lego

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1 Have you ever played with Lego? Lego is one of the biggest toy companies inthe world and one of the most well-known toy brands. Lego was founded in Denmarkin 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. Thecompany originally made high-quality
5toys from wood. However, in 1958,
Ole’s son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen,
patented the now famous plastic Legoblock. The word Lego is derived from“leg godt,” which means “play well,” in10Danish. It also means “I put together,” inA young boy displaying his Lego collection andLatin. Lego is a special kind of toy that an original spaceship he made himself.
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Lego’s simple plastic building blocks encourage people to use theirimagination and discover many different ways to play with them. This has become
known as the “Lego System of Play,” and is the foundation of the huge success of the
5 toy. Many people play with Lego their entire lives — from beginner sets when they
are young, through more advanced sets as they get older, to enjoying Lego with theirchildren as adults. In this way, Lego truly spans generations.
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3 The key to Lego’s appeal is simply that children love to play with it. As all

Lego blocks fit together, children can constantly make new toys and invent stories
10 involving their creations. As well as being entertaining and encouraging creativity,
playing with Lego also has other benefits. Scientists have found that playing with
Lego when very young can improve children’s ability in math, perceptual skills,and problem-solving. Along with all these benefits, it provides a great connection
between children and their parents. This ability of Lego to encourage teamwork and
15 collaboration has been used by psychologists to help children with autism to improvetheir social skills.
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4 Lego does not only make toys for children, however. In 1998, the first Lego

Mindstorms toys were sold. These Lego toys were for adults and allowed people
to build and program robots made from special Lego bricks. In 2004, the first
20 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) — a series of games for robots made using Lego
Mindstorms — was held in Singapore with teams from four countries. In the 2016
WRO, held in India, 21,700 teams from 56 countries took part. In the 2016 FIRSTLEGO League, a similar competition for elementary and junior high school students,
more than 255,000 children in 31,079 teams took part.
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5 As shown by Lego Mindstorms, one reason behind the continuing success of

the Lego brand is its ability to evolve and innovate. In its early years, it switched frommaking wooden blocks to plastic bricks. At that time, plastic was not often used intoys. The company has also formed tie-ups with other popular brands such as Marveland Star Wars, allowing fans to build their own versions of those fantasy worlds. But30 perhaps the most important reason for the continuing success of the Lego brandis that it listens to its customers. Lego Cuusoo is a website that allows Lego fans
to upload their designs and vote on other fans’ designs. If a design receives morethan 10,000 votes, the Lego company will consider creating and selling a set for2

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Building Blocks, Building Minds – The Amazing Success of Legothat design. The first two products created as a result of fans’ votes on Lego Cuusoo
were the Japanese Shinkai 6500 submersible in 2011 and the Japanese Hayabusa
spacecraft in 2012. More recently Lego has introduced products using augmentedreality such as the Lego AR Studio. Launched in December 2017, it allows children
to combine physical Lego with virtual reality. For example, you can play with a 5
fantasy castle Lego set while a fire-breathing dragon hovers above you! Lego is evenused by some companies to develop their businesses, something which is called LegoSerious Play.
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Like Disney, Lego
10even has its own themeparks and movies. The first
Legoland opened in 1968 in
Billund, Denmark. By 2017,
there were Legolands in15
Dubai, England, Germany,Malaysia, Japan, and theUnited States (in Californiaand Florida). Movies madewith Lego, called brickfilms,
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have been made by fans since
the early 1970s, and it is The eighth Legoland opened in Nagoya, Japan on April 1, 2017.
easy to find many brickfilms on Internet sites such as YouTube. The Lego company
encourages this, and between 2000 and 2003, released several Lego Studios sets formovie makers. In 2014, the first Hollywood Lego movie, called The Lego Movie,
was released. It was a huge success, making $469 million. Since then several more 25
successful Lego movies have been made.
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7 Today, Lego continues to be a powerful force in the toy world and beyond.

Its mission “To inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow,” is still as relevant,powerful, and as fun as ever. Lego will undoubtedly continue to inspire future
generations. As Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, the grandson of the founder said, “We are all 30
growing older all the time, but we don’t need to grow up. There’ll always be a childinside and the child wants to have fun.”3NOTESOle Kirk Christiansen「オーレ・キアク・クリスチャンセン（）」デンマークの玩具メーカー LEGO®（レゴ ®）の創業者。Godtfred（ゴッドフレッド；）は三男、Kjeld（ケル；）は孫。 Latin「ラテン語」 key to ~「〜を理解する鍵（ポイント）」 perceptual skill「知覚能力」 autism「自閉症」 social skill「社会的交流能力」対人関係における挨拶、交渉、自己主張などの技能。社会的スキル。 World Robot Olympiad (WRO)「ワールド・ロボット・オリンピアード（WRO）」小中高生によるロボット競技の国際大会で、毎年開催される。ロボット製作とプログラム開発のトータル技術で競う自律型ロボットのコンテスト。 FIRST LEGO League「ファースト・レゴ・リーグ」米国の NPO 法人「FIRST」とレゴ社が運営する国際的なロボット競技会。
Marvel マーベル・コミックス社がその前々身の出版社名で発刊した漫画雑誌『マーベル・コミックス』(Marvel Comics )(1939 〜 )。ここから生まれたヒーローたちはその後映画化もされ、現在もコミックスと映画の双方で米国のエンターテインメント業界をリードしている。これらのヒーローたちを総称して “ マーベルの ” スーパーヒーローと呼ぶ。マーベル・コミックスおよび現在の親会社であるマーベル・エンターテインメントは、キャプテン・アメリカやスパイダーマンなど超人的な力で知られる米国のスーパーヒーローのほとんどを生み出した。 Star Wars ジョージ・ルーカス監督によって世界観が生み出され製作された宇宙映画シリーズ。1977 年にシリーズ最初の作品『スター・ウォーズ』(StarWars ) が公開。後に『スター・ウォーズ エピソード４：新たなる希望』(Star Wars: Episode IV̶
A New Hope ) に改題されている。 年のエピソード７からウォルト・ディズニー社が製作している。
Lego Cuusoo 2008 〜 14 年に運営されたウェブサイトで、後継サイトは Lego Ideas。 voteon ~「〜に（ついて）投票する」 Shinkai 6500「しんかい 」日本の海洋研究開発機構が開発した有人潜水調査船。乗組員は 3 人で、 メートルの深海まで潜行可能。 submersible「潜水艇，潜水調査船」 Hayabusa「はやぶさ」日本の宇宙航空開発機構（JAXA）が 2003 年に打ち上げた小惑星探査機。 年に小惑星「イトカワ」に着地して砂粒を採取、2010 年に砂粒の入った耐熱カプセルを地球に届けた。はやぶさ自身は大気圏突入で燃え尽きた。 augmented reality「拡張現実」実世界から得られる知覚情報にコンピューターで生み出される情報を重ね合わせ、人の知覚体験を豊かにする技術。 virtual reality「仮想現実」 Lego Serious Play「レゴ・シリアスプ
レイ」レゴ社が開発した組織活性化の手法。レゴブロックを用いて参加者が心の内面をブロックで立体化・可視化させ、問題解決やチームビルディング、組織のビジョンづくりなどへ導くワークショップ形式のビジネス研修。 Billund「ビルン」デンマークのユトランド半島中央部の町で、レゴ本社もある。
Dubai「ドバイ」アラブ首長国連邦を構成する 7 首長国の 1 つ。アラビア半島南東部のペルシャ湾の出口に位置する。首都はドバイ市。 EULFNÀOP「ブリックフィルム」レゴブロックなどのプラスチック製ブロック玩具を使用して制作されたコマ撮りアニメーション映画。日本語のレゴブロックは、英語では Lego brick と呼ばれている。brick は「煉瓦（れんが）」の意。

Questions for Understanding
Part 1

Look at the following statements. Write T if the statement is true, andF if it is false.Write the number of the paragraph where you find theanswer in the parenthesis.

1. Since it began, Lego has made its toys from plastic.
2. Lego is popular both with children and adults.

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3. Playing with Lego can help children to become inventors.

T/F(#4. Lego allows its customers to decide new designs via an onlinesystem.

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T/F

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1. What is the main reason that Lego is popular?
a. □ Lego is very good at marketing.
b. □ Lego helps children to do well at school.
c. □ Lego is enjoyed by children.
d. □ Lego teaches people about new technology.
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d. □ Because a movie studio was created at Legoland in Denmark
4. What does Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen mean by his statement “We are all
growing older all the time, but we don’t need to grow up.”?
a. □ Lego is still popular among children of all agesb. □ Lego is trying to increase its popularity among adultsc. □ Lego reminds us it is important to maintain a childlike curiosity in lifed. □ Lego helps older people to relate to younger people

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The word Lego is 1) _______________ the Danish words “leg godt” whichmeans “play well,” and the company has delighted children and adults forgenerations. Lego blocks can be 2) _______________ in an endless number
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Lego’s success is its ability to 3) _______________ and keep offering new sets
to play with. Another is to incorporate new technology into their “system ofplay.” In 2004, a robot 4) _______________ was held in Singapore, in which
all the robots were made from Lego Mindstorms sets. Lego’s success seems
assured as it continues to 5) _______________ its products in order to remain
6) _______________ to new generations of customers.

What do YOU think?
Choose ONE of the statements below. Do you agree or disagree with it? Why?
Prepare a short response giving your opinion.
▶ Lego is the best toy in the world.
▶ If you don’t encourage your children to play with Lego, you are a bad parent.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than ina year of conversation.
Plato (428-348 BCE)
Ancient Greek philosopher

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