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From the Ted Talk by Stewart Brand and Chris Anderson: Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
SB: Well, one of the things I'm learning is that documentation is better than ______ — by far. And one of the things I've learned from somebody — I actually got on _______. It changed my life — it hasn't forgiven me yet! And I took ownership of this phrase when somebody ______ it, and somebody else said, "Oh by the way, that isn't what you originally wrote in that first 1968 Whole Earth Catalog. You wrote, 'We are as gods and might as well get used to it.'" I'd _________ that entirely. The stories — these ______ stories — the stories we tell ourselves become lies over time. So, documentation helps cut through that. It did move on to "We are as gods and might as well get good at it," and that was the Whole _____ Catalog. By the time I was doing a book called "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist _________," and in light of climate change, basically saying that we are as gods and have to get good at it.
Solution
- memory
- twitter
- earth
- manifesto
- goddam
- quoted
- forgotten
Original Text
SB: Well, one of the things I'm learning is that documentation is better than memory — by far. And one of the things I've learned from somebody — I actually got on Twitter. It changed my life — it hasn't forgiven me yet! And I took ownership of this phrase when somebody quoted it, and somebody else said, "Oh by the way, that isn't what you originally wrote in that first 1968 Whole Earth Catalog. You wrote, 'We are as gods and might as well get used to it.'" I'd forgotten that entirely. The stories — these goddam stories — the stories we tell ourselves become lies over time. So, documentation helps cut through that. It did move on to "We are as gods and might as well get good at it," and that was the Whole Earth Catalog. By the time I was doing a book called "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," and in light of climate change, basically saying that we are as gods and have to get good at it.
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