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From the Ted Talk by Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world

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Now what Okolloh did would not have been possible without diigatl technology. What olkoloh did would not have been possible without human generosity. And the interesting moment now, the number of environments where the social deisgn challenge relies on both of those things being true. That is the resource that I'm talking about. I call it cognitive surplus. And it represents the atibliy of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on lgare, sometimes global, projects. ciigovnte sulrups is made up of two things. The first, obviously, is the world's free time and talents. The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn't get Ushahidi in the 20th century.

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Now what Okolloh did would not have been possible without _______ technology. What _______ did would not have been possible without human generosity. And the interesting moment now, the number of environments where the social ______ challenge relies on both of those things being true. That is the resource that I'm talking about. I call it cognitive surplus. And it represents the _______ of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on _____, sometimes global, projects. _________ _______ is made up of two things. The first, obviously, is the world's free time and talents. The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn't get Ushahidi in the 20th century.

Solution


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  2. surplus
  3. large
  4. okolloh
  5. design
  6. digital
  7. ability

Original Text


Now what Okolloh did would not have been possible without digital technology. What Okolloh did would not have been possible without human generosity. And the interesting moment now, the number of environments where the social design challenge relies on both of those things being true. That is the resource that I'm talking about. I call it cognitive surplus. And it represents the ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects. Cognitive surplus is made up of two things. The first, obviously, is the world's free time and talents. The world has over a trillion hours a year of free time to commit to shared projects. Now, that free time existed in the 20th century, but we didn't get Ushahidi in the 20th century.

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