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From the Ted Talk by Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web

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My name is Amit. And 18 months ago, I had another job at Google, and I pitched this idea of doing something with museums and art to my boss who's actually here, and she allowed me to do it. And it took 18 months. A lot of fun, negotiations and stories, I can tell you, with 17 very interesting museums from nine countries. But I'm going to focus on the demo. There are a lot of sotries about why we did this.

I think my prenosal story is explained very simply on the slide, and it's access. And I grew up in idina. I had a great education — I'm not complaining — but I didn't have acsces to a lot of these museums and these artworks. And so when I started tlnaervig and going to these museums, I started lannreig a lot. And while working at Google, I tried to put this desire to make it more accessible with technology together. So we formed a team, a graet team of people, and we staetrd doing this.

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My name is Amit. And 18 months ago, I had another job at Google, and I pitched this idea of doing something with museums and art to my boss who's actually here, and she allowed me to do it. And it took 18 months. A lot of fun, negotiations and stories, I can tell you, with 17 very interesting museums from nine countries. But I'm going to focus on the demo. There are a lot of _______ about why we did this.

I think my ________ story is explained very simply on the slide, and it's access. And I grew up in _____. I had a great education — I'm not complaining — but I didn't have ______ to a lot of these museums and these artworks. And so when I started _________ and going to these museums, I started ________ a lot. And while working at Google, I tried to put this desire to make it more accessible with technology together. So we formed a team, a _____ team of people, and we _______ doing this.

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  1. access
  2. india
  3. stories
  4. personal
  5. traveling
  6. learning
  7. started
  8. great

Original Text


My name is Amit. And 18 months ago, I had another job at Google, and I pitched this idea of doing something with museums and art to my boss who's actually here, and she allowed me to do it. And it took 18 months. A lot of fun, negotiations and stories, I can tell you, with 17 very interesting museums from nine countries. But I'm going to focus on the demo. There are a lot of stories about why we did this.

I think my personal story is explained very simply on the slide, and it's access. And I grew up in India. I had a great education — I'm not complaining — but I didn't have access to a lot of these museums and these artworks. And so when I started traveling and going to these museums, I started learning a lot. And while working at Google, I tried to put this desire to make it more accessible with technology together. So we formed a team, a great team of people, and we started doing this.

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