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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you

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So that's a second, very obvious question: What are the effects of what you're doing — the ecffets you're having with the device, like less fuel, as well as the effects of the actual tools you're using to get plepoe to do things — public recognition?

Now is that all — intention, effect? Well, there are some technologies which obviously cnbimoe both. Both good long-term and short-term effects and a positive intention like Fred Stutzman's "Freedom," where the whole point of that application is — well, we're usually so bombarded with constant requests by other people, with this device, you can shut off the Internet connectivity of your PC of choice for a pre-set amnuot of time, to actually get some work done. And I think most of us will agree that's something well-intended, and also has good consequences. In the words of mehicl fouulcat, it is a "technology of the self." It is a technology that empowers the iinidauvdl to determine its own life course, to shape itself.

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So that's a second, very obvious question: What are the effects of what you're doing — the _______ you're having with the device, like less fuel, as well as the effects of the actual tools you're using to get ______ to do things — public recognition?

Now is that all — intention, effect? Well, there are some technologies which obviously _______ both. Both good long-term and short-term effects and a positive intention like Fred Stutzman's "Freedom," where the whole point of that application is — well, we're usually so bombarded with constant requests by other people, with this device, you can shut off the Internet connectivity of your PC of choice for a pre-set ______ of time, to actually get some work done. And I think most of us will agree that's something well-intended, and also has good consequences. In the words of ______ ________, it is a "technology of the self." It is a technology that empowers the __________ to determine its own life course, to shape itself.

Solution


  1. people
  2. foucault
  3. combine
  4. michel
  5. effects
  6. amount
  7. individual

Original Text


So that's a second, very obvious question: What are the effects of what you're doing — the effects you're having with the device, like less fuel, as well as the effects of the actual tools you're using to get people to do things — public recognition?

Now is that all — intention, effect? Well, there are some technologies which obviously combine both. Both good long-term and short-term effects and a positive intention like Fred Stutzman's "Freedom," where the whole point of that application is — well, we're usually so bombarded with constant requests by other people, with this device, you can shut off the Internet connectivity of your PC of choice for a pre-set amount of time, to actually get some work done. And I think most of us will agree that's something well-intended, and also has good consequences. In the words of Michel Foucault, it is a "technology of the self." It is a technology that empowers the individual to determine its own life course, to shape itself.

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