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From the Ted Talk by Philip Rosedale: Life in Second Life
Unscramble the Blue Letters
JH: What's your response to the people who would say, that's horrifying?
(Audience: If someone would say to you, I find that disturbing, what would be your response?)
PR: Well, I'd say a couple of things. One is, it's disturbing like the Internet or electricity was. That is to say, it's a big change, but it isn't aaibdlove. So, no amount of backpedaling or intentional behavior or political behavior is going to keep these technology changes from connecting us together, because the baisc motvie that people have — to be creative and entrepreneurial — is going to drive egnery into these virtual worlds in the same way that it has with the Web. So this change, I believe, is a huge dtvpsiruie change.
Open Cloze
JH: What's your response to the people who would say, that's horrifying?
(Audience: If someone would say to you, I find that disturbing, what would be your response?)
PR: Well, I'd say a couple of things. One is, it's disturbing like the Internet or electricity was. That is to say, it's a big change, but it isn't _________. So, no amount of backpedaling or intentional behavior or political behavior is going to keep these technology changes from connecting us together, because the _____ ______ that people have — to be creative and entrepreneurial — is going to drive ______ into these virtual worlds in the same way that it has with the Web. So this change, I believe, is a huge __________ change.
Solution
- disruptive
- avoidable
- basic
- motive
- energy
Original Text
JH: What's your response to the people who would say, that's horrifying?
(Audience: If someone would say to you, I find that disturbing, what would be your response?)
PR: Well, I'd say a couple of things. One is, it's disturbing like the Internet or electricity was. That is to say, it's a big change, but it isn't avoidable. So, no amount of backpedaling or intentional behavior or political behavior is going to keep these technology changes from connecting us together, because the basic motive that people have — to be creative and entrepreneurial — is going to drive energy into these virtual worlds in the same way that it has with the Web. So this change, I believe, is a huge disruptive change.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
| collocation |
frequency |
| virtual world |
9 |
| virtual worlds |
8 |
| experience information |
3 |
| space exploration |
2 |
| united states |
2 |
| virtual space |
2 |
| life today |
2 |
| consume information |
2 |
| human beings |
2 |
| social creatures |
2 |
| digital cameras |
2 |
| grand scheme |
2 |
| real world |
2 |
| studied physics |
2 |
Important Words
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- drive
- electricity
- energy
- entrepreneurial
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- horrifying
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- intentional
- internet
- motive
- people
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- response
- technology
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