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From the Ted Talk by Kayvon Tehranian: How NFTs are building the internet of the future


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A lot has changed on the ________ since 1992. The internet itself is an alive and evolving technology. And as predicted by its earliest champions, the internet has increasingly become our default context. _____, one's job, wealth, _____________, sense of self, are all often more mediated through our digital contexts than our ________ ones. Yet, Barlow's ______ has remained ________ unsolved. ________ like property and _________ — ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world — have evaded us in our digital spaces. We’ve tried to foist copyright, DMCA, DRM and watermarks onto the internet to protect our ideas and to ________ their distribution. None of these approaches have worked. Why? Because, as Stewart Brand, another early internet pioneer, famously coined: information wants to be free. It wants to travel effortlessly, without hindrance, without encumbrance. This is what allowed the internet to _______ in the first place.

Solution


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  2. vexingly
  3. ownership
  4. succeed
  5. relationships
  6. today
  7. riddle
  8. restrain
  9. physical
  10. concepts

Original Text


A lot has changed on the internet since 1992. The internet itself is an alive and evolving technology. And as predicted by its earliest champions, the internet has increasingly become our default context. Today, one's job, wealth, relationships, sense of self, are all often more mediated through our digital contexts than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership — ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world — have evaded us in our digital spaces. We’ve tried to foist copyright, DMCA, DRM and watermarks onto the internet to protect our ideas and to restrain their distribution. None of these approaches have worked. Why? Because, as Stewart Brand, another early internet pioneer, famously coined: information wants to be free. It wants to travel effortlessly, without hindrance, without encumbrance. This is what allowed the internet to succeed in the first place.

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