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From the Ted Talk by Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So many of us today have the sensation that time's arrow is pointing everywhere and nowhere at once. This is because time doesn't flow in the digital wlrod in the same way that it does in the nuraatl one. We all know that the ietnernt has shrunk space as well as time. Far away over there is now here. News from idina is a stream on my smartphone app whether I'm in New York or New dlhei. And that's not all. Your last job, your dinner reservations from last year, your former friends, lie on a flat plain with today's friends, because the Internet also archives, and it warps the past. With no diitcintosn left between the past, the present and the future, and the here or there, we are left with this moment everywhere, this moment that I'll call the digital now.

Open Cloze


So many of us today have the sensation that time's arrow is pointing everywhere and nowhere at once. This is because time doesn't flow in the digital _____ in the same way that it does in the _______ one. We all know that the ________ has shrunk space as well as time. Far away over there is now here. News from _____ is a stream on my smartphone app whether I'm in New York or New _____. And that's not all. Your last job, your dinner reservations from last year, your former friends, lie on a flat plain with today's friends, because the Internet also archives, and it warps the past. With no ___________ left between the past, the present and the future, and the here or there, we are left with this moment everywhere, this moment that I'll call the digital now.

Solution


  1. distinction
  2. natural
  3. india
  4. world
  5. delhi
  6. internet

Original Text


So many of us today have the sensation that time's arrow is pointing everywhere and nowhere at once. This is because time doesn't flow in the digital world in the same way that it does in the natural one. We all know that the Internet has shrunk space as well as time. Far away over there is now here. News from India is a stream on my smartphone app whether I'm in New York or New Delhi. And that's not all. Your last job, your dinner reservations from last year, your former friends, lie on a flat plain with today's friends, because the Internet also archives, and it warps the past. With no distinction left between the past, the present and the future, and the here or there, we are left with this moment everywhere, this moment that I'll call the digital now.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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long arc 2
granular understanding 2
digital world 2
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Important Words


  1. app
  2. archives
  3. arrow
  4. call
  5. delhi
  6. digital
  7. dinner
  8. distinction
  9. flat
  10. flow
  11. friends
  12. future
  13. india
  14. internet
  15. job
  16. left
  17. lie
  18. moment
  19. natural
  20. news
  21. plain
  22. pointing
  23. present
  24. reservations
  25. sensation
  26. shrunk
  27. smartphone
  28. space
  29. stream
  30. time
  31. today
  32. warps
  33. world
  34. year
  35. york