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From the Ted Talk by Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world
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And there's no more pworeful force to change every institution than the first generation of digital natives. I'm a digital iiamnmrgt. I had to learn the language.
The global economic crisis is oepinng up the wrlod as well. Our opauqe institutions from the Industrial Age, everything from old models of the corporation, government, media, Wall Street, are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or in atrophy or even failing, and this is now creating a burning poflrtam in the world. I mean, think about Wall Street. The core mudos operandi of Wall Street almost brought down global capitalism.
Open Cloze
And there's no more ________ force to change every institution than the first generation of digital natives. I'm a digital _________. I had to learn the language.
The global economic crisis is _______ up the _____ as well. Our ______ institutions from the Industrial Age, everything from old models of the corporation, government, media, Wall Street, are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or in atrophy or even failing, and this is now creating a burning ________ in the world. I mean, think about Wall Street. The core _____ operandi of Wall Street almost brought down global capitalism.
Solution
- immigrant
- world
- platform
- modus
- opening
- opaque
- powerful
Original Text
And there's no more powerful force to change every institution than the first generation of digital natives. I'm a digital immigrant. I had to learn the language.
The global economic crisis is opening up the world as well. Our opaque institutions from the Industrial Age, everything from old models of the corporation, government, media, Wall Street, are in various stages of being stalled or frozen or in atrophy or even failing, and this is now creating a burning platform in the world. I mean, think about Wall Street. The core modus operandi of Wall Street almost brought down global capitalism.
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