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From the Ted Talk by Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine

Unscramble the Blue Letters


If we reach that stage, then there's something else: we can extract from this dcueonmt envets. Actually probably 10 billion events can be extracted from this archive. And this giant infaimotron system can be searched in many ways. You can ask qtosneius like, "Who lived in this palazzo in 1323?" "How much cost a sea bream at the Realto market in 1434?" "What was the salary of a glass maker in Murano maybe over a decade?" You can ask even bigger questions because it will be semantically coded. And then what you can do is put that in sacpe, because much of this information is spatial. And from that, you can do things like rtosecnrntciug this extraordinary journey of that city that managed to have a saisaunlbte development over a thousand years, maignang to have all the time a form of equilibrium with its environment. You can reconstruct that journey, visualize it in many different ways. But of course, you cannot understand vcenie if you just look at the city. You have to put it in a larger European context. So the idea is also to document all the things that worked at the eoaeprun level. We can reconstruct also the journey of the Venetian maritime empire, how it progressively controlled the Adriatic Sea, how it became the most pefruwol medieval empire of its time, cnrltoliong most of the sea routes from the east to the south.

Open Cloze


If we reach that stage, then there's something else: we can extract from this ________ ______. Actually probably 10 billion events can be extracted from this archive. And this giant ___________ system can be searched in many ways. You can ask _________ like, "Who lived in this palazzo in 1323?" "How much cost a sea bream at the Realto market in 1434?" "What was the salary of a glass maker in Murano maybe over a decade?" You can ask even bigger questions because it will be semantically coded. And then what you can do is put that in _____, because much of this information is spatial. And from that, you can do things like ______________ this extraordinary journey of that city that managed to have a ___________ development over a thousand years, ________ to have all the time a form of equilibrium with its environment. You can reconstruct that journey, visualize it in many different ways. But of course, you cannot understand ______ if you just look at the city. You have to put it in a larger European context. So the idea is also to document all the things that worked at the ________ level. We can reconstruct also the journey of the Venetian maritime empire, how it progressively controlled the Adriatic Sea, how it became the most ________ medieval empire of its time, ___________ most of the sea routes from the east to the south.

Solution


  1. reconstructing
  2. questions
  3. information
  4. controlling
  5. space
  6. sustainable
  7. document
  8. managing
  9. events
  10. venice
  11. european
  12. powerful

Original Text


If we reach that stage, then there's something else: we can extract from this document events. Actually probably 10 billion events can be extracted from this archive. And this giant information system can be searched in many ways. You can ask questions like, "Who lived in this palazzo in 1323?" "How much cost a sea bream at the Realto market in 1434?" "What was the salary of a glass maker in Murano maybe over a decade?" You can ask even bigger questions because it will be semantically coded. And then what you can do is put that in space, because much of this information is spatial. And from that, you can do things like reconstructing this extraordinary journey of that city that managed to have a sustainable development over a thousand years, managing to have all the time a form of equilibrium with its environment. You can reconstruct that journey, visualize it in many different ways. But of course, you cannot understand Venice if you just look at the city. You have to put it in a larger European context. So the idea is also to document all the things that worked at the European level. We can reconstruct also the journey of the Venetian maritime empire, how it progressively controlled the Adriatic Sea, how it became the most powerful medieval empire of its time, controlling most of the sea routes from the east to the south.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. adriatic
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  30. larger
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  33. maker
  34. managed
  35. managing
  36. maritime
  37. market
  38. medieval
  39. murano
  40. palazzo
  41. powerful
  42. progressively
  43. put
  44. questions
  45. reach
  46. realto
  47. reconstruct
  48. reconstructing
  49. routes
  50. salary
  51. sea
  52. searched
  53. semantically
  54. south
  55. space
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  60. thousand
  61. time
  62. understand
  63. venetian
  64. venice
  65. visualize
  66. ways
  67. worked
  68. years