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From the Ted Talk by David Birch: A new way to stop identity theft

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Is that just a pipe dream? Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be here talking. So, in order to build that and make it work, I'm only going to name these things, I'll not go into them: we need a plan, which is, we're going to build this as an infrastructure for everybody to use to solve all of these problems. We're going to make a uttiliy. The utility has to be usrinveal, you can use it everywhere. I'm just giving you little flashes of the tlenghocoy as we go along.

That's a Japanese ATM, the fingerprint template is sterod inside the mobile phone. So when you want to draw money out, you put the phone on the ATM and touch your finger, your fingerprint goes through to the phone, the pohne says, "Yes, that's whoever," and the ATM then gives you some money. It has to be a utility that you can use everywhere. It has to be absolutely convenient.

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Is that just a pipe dream? Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be here talking. So, in order to build that and make it work, I'm only going to name these things, I'll not go into them: we need a plan, which is, we're going to build this as an infrastructure for everybody to use to solve all of these problems. We're going to make a _______. The utility has to be _________, you can use it everywhere. I'm just giving you little flashes of the __________ as we go along.

That's a Japanese ATM, the fingerprint template is ______ inside the mobile phone. So when you want to draw money out, you put the phone on the ATM and touch your finger, your fingerprint goes through to the phone, the _____ says, "Yes, that's whoever," and the ATM then gives you some money. It has to be a utility that you can use everywhere. It has to be absolutely convenient.

Solution


  1. universal
  2. utility
  3. stored
  4. phone
  5. technology

Original Text


Is that just a pipe dream? Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be here talking. So, in order to build that and make it work, I'm only going to name these things, I'll not go into them: we need a plan, which is, we're going to build this as an infrastructure for everybody to use to solve all of these problems. We're going to make a utility. The utility has to be universal, you can use it everywhere. I'm just giving you little flashes of the technology as we go along.

That's a Japanese ATM, the fingerprint template is stored inside the mobile phone. So when you want to draw money out, you put the phone on the ATM and touch your finger, your fingerprint goes through to the phone, the phone says, "Yes, that's whoever," and the ATM then gives you some money. It has to be a utility that you can use everywhere. It has to be absolutely convenient.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. absolutely
  2. atm
  3. build
  4. convenient
  5. draw
  6. dream
  7. finger
  8. fingerprint
  9. flashes
  10. giving
  11. infrastructure
  12. japanese
  13. mobile
  14. money
  15. order
  16. phone
  17. pipe
  18. plan
  19. problems
  20. put
  21. solve
  22. stored
  23. talking
  24. technology
  25. template
  26. touch
  27. universal
  28. utility
  29. work