ShmoopTube

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Here a Shmoop, there a Shmoop, everywhere a Shmoop Shmoop...

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We'll just chill while you press pause and keep reading the following passage.

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According to the passage, the "fantasy of the future" in line 10 had become a reality

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through all of the following developments EXCEPT...what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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When you see a word written in all caps that usually

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means it's important--or at least somebody thinks it's important.

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This question puts EXCEPT in all caps, hitting us over the head with the idea that we have

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to find the thing on this list that the passage doesn't mention.

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If only Steve Jobs had come up with a USB port that plugged directly into our brains,

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we wouldn't have to skim through the passage again.

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Unfortunately, he didn't, so we'll just have to go back through it and cross off the

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answer choices we find here.

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After careful review, we find that (B), "shifts in the workforce," is the only one that's not mentioned in the passage.

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Just wait to see what shifts in the workforce happen when the iBrain finally does come out.

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Creepy.

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