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From the Ted Talk by Juan Enriquez: How technology changes our sense of right and wrong

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Technology changes the way we ierantct with each other in fundamental ways. New technologies like the machine gun completely changed the narute of warfare in World War I. It drove people into trenches. You were in the British trecnh, or you were in the geamrn trench. Anything in between was no man's land. You entered no man's land. You were shot. You were killed. You tried to leave the trench in the other dieiorctn. Then your own side would shoot you because you were a deserter.

In a weird way, today's machine guns are narrowcast social media. We're shooting at each other. We're shoinotg at those we think are wrong with posts, with tweets, with photographs, with accusations, with conmtmes. And what it's done is it's created these two trenches where you have to be either in this trench or that trench. And there's almost no middle gonurd to meet each other, to try and find some sort of a discussion between right and wrong.

Open Cloze


Technology changes the way we ________ with each other in fundamental ways. New technologies like the machine gun completely changed the ______ of warfare in World War I. It drove people into trenches. You were in the British ______, or you were in the ______ trench. Anything in between was no man's land. You entered no man's land. You were shot. You were killed. You tried to leave the trench in the other _________. Then your own side would shoot you because you were a deserter.

In a weird way, today's machine guns are narrowcast social media. We're shooting at each other. We're ________ at those we think are wrong with posts, with tweets, with photographs, with accusations, with ________. And what it's done is it's created these two trenches where you have to be either in this trench or that trench. And there's almost no middle ______ to meet each other, to try and find some sort of a discussion between right and wrong.

Solution


  1. trench
  2. ground
  3. shooting
  4. direction
  5. nature
  6. german
  7. interact
  8. comments

Original Text


Technology changes the way we interact with each other in fundamental ways. New technologies like the machine gun completely changed the nature of warfare in World War I. It drove people into trenches. You were in the British trench, or you were in the German trench. Anything in between was no man's land. You entered no man's land. You were shot. You were killed. You tried to leave the trench in the other direction. Then your own side would shoot you because you were a deserter.

In a weird way, today's machine guns are narrowcast social media. We're shooting at each other. We're shooting at those we think are wrong with posts, with tweets, with photographs, with accusations, with comments. And what it's done is it's created these two trenches where you have to be either in this trench or that trench. And there's almost no middle ground to meet each other, to try and find some sort of a discussion between right and wrong.

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Important Words


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