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From the Ted Talk by Meron Gribetz: A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset


Unscramble the Blue Letters


Thank you so much.

Thanks, Ray.

Ray: You're welcome.

(Applause)

MG: So fokls, this is the message that I discovered in that bar in 2011: The future of computers is not locked inside one of these seerncs. It's right here, inside of us.

(aappsule)

So if there's one idea that I could laeve you with here today, it's that the natural machine is not some figment of the future, it's right here in 2016. Which is why all hundred of us at Meta, including the administrative staff, the executives, the drginsees, the engineers — before TED2017, we're all going to be throwing away our external monitors and replacing them with a truly and profoundly more natural machine.

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Thank you so much.

Thanks, Ray.

Ray: You're welcome.

(Applause)

MG: So _____, this is the message that I discovered in that bar in 2011: The future of computers is not locked inside one of these _______. It's right here, inside of us.

(________)

So if there's one idea that I could _____ you with here today, it's that the natural machine is not some figment of the future, it's right here in 2016. Which is why all hundred of us at Meta, including the administrative staff, the executives, the _________, the engineers — before TED2017, we're all going to be throwing away our external monitors and replacing them with a truly and profoundly more natural machine.

Solution


  1. folks
  2. screens
  3. designers
  4. leave
  5. applause

Original Text


Thank you so much.

Thanks, Ray.

Ray: You're welcome.

(Applause)

MG: So folks, this is the message that I discovered in that bar in 2011: The future of computers is not locked inside one of these screens. It's right here, inside of us.

(Applause)

So if there's one idea that I could leave you with here today, it's that the natural machine is not some figment of the future, it's right here in 2016. Which is why all hundred of us at Meta, including the administrative staff, the executives, the designers, the engineers — before TED2017, we're all going to be throwing away our external monitors and replacing them with a truly and profoundly more natural machine.

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