Technology and the future

The internet has had an impact on how we communicate at work

Интернет оказал влияние на то

Innovation (Our new product won an award for technical innovation)

Инновация / нововведение

Making predictions (Liz is making a prediction about what will happen in the new year)

Строить прогнозы / делать предсказания

Revolution (The internet has caused a revolution in the ways we learn)

Революция / коренной перелом

What the future holds (None of us can know exactly what the future holds)

Что принесет будущее / что ждет нас в будущем

Cutting edge (His cutting edge designs have made millions of dollars)

Передовой / ультрасовременный / новейший

In the long run (The car was expensive but will save us money in the long run)

В долгосрочной перспективе / в конечном счете

The shape of things to come (Higher prices could be the shape of things to come)

Очертания будущего / тенденция развития

Digital age (In this digital age

many people have a laptop and smartphone)

Latest model (I really want to buy the latest model of their smartphone)

Последняя модель

Break the mold / Make a breakthrough (Their scientist made an amazing breakthrough)

Сделать прорыв / выйти за рамки привычного

Computer literacy (You need to be computer literate to find a good job these days)

Компьютерная грамотность

State of the art (Our customers love our state of the art kitchen equipment)

Ультрасовременный / по последнему слову техники

Technophile (Sam's such a technophile

he has to have the latest phone)

Future proof (They must future proof all designs or our sales will start to fall)

Защищенный от устаревания / рассчитанный на будущее

Technophobe (My uncle's a technophobe

he still uses a typewriter)

Matter of time (It's only a matter of time before we sell one of these paintings)

Дело времени

Obsolete (CDs and cassettes have become obsolete because of online streaming)

Устаревший / вышедший из употребления

Only time will tell (Only time will tell whether we will live on Mars one day)

Только время покажет

Light years ahead (My new smartphone is light years ahead of my old one)

На световые годы впереди / далеко впереди