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From the Ted Talk by Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Number four: the most powerful asset of the digital age is data. And data is really a new asest class, maybe bigger than previous asset casesls, like land under the agrarian economy, or an industrial plant, or even mnoey. And all of you — we — ceatre this data. We create this asset, and we leave this trail of digaitl crumbs behind us as we go throughout life. And these crumbs are collected into a mirror image of you, the virtual you. And the virtual you may know more about you than you do, because you can't reemebmr what you bought a year ago, or said a year ago, or your exact location a year ago. And the virtual you is not owned by you — that's the big poerblm.

Open Cloze


Number four: the most powerful asset of the digital age is data. And data is really a new _____ class, maybe bigger than previous asset _______, like land under the agrarian economy, or an industrial plant, or even _____. And all of you — we — ______ this data. We create this asset, and we leave this trail of _______ crumbs behind us as we go throughout life. And these crumbs are collected into a mirror image of you, the virtual you. And the virtual you may know more about you than you do, because you can't ________ what you bought a year ago, or said a year ago, or your exact location a year ago. And the virtual you is not owned by you — that's the big _______.

Solution


  1. remember
  2. create
  3. classes
  4. money
  5. digital
  6. asset
  7. problem

Original Text


Number four: the most powerful asset of the digital age is data. And data is really a new asset class, maybe bigger than previous asset classes, like land under the agrarian economy, or an industrial plant, or even money. And all of you — we — create this data. We create this asset, and we leave this trail of digital crumbs behind us as we go throughout life. And these crumbs are collected into a mirror image of you, the virtual you. And the virtual you may know more about you than you do, because you can't remember what you bought a year ago, or said a year ago, or your exact location a year ago. And the virtual you is not owned by you — that's the big problem.

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Important Words


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