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From the Ted Talk by Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future

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An individual, for the first time in the history of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to destroy the planet, to wreck everything, through the caitreon, for example, of a biopathogen. How do we begin to wavee these teratsepis together? How do we think about complex systems in new ways? That will be the challenge of the scholars, and of all of us engaged in thinking about the future. The rest of our lievs will be in the fruute. We need to prepare for it now. We need to udaenntsrd that the governance structure in the world is fossilized. It cannot begin to cope with the challenges that this will bring. We have to develop a new way of managing the planet, collectively, through collective wisdom.

Open Cloze


An individual, for the first time in the history of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to destroy the planet, to wreck everything, through the ________, for example, of a biopathogen. How do we begin to _____ these __________ together? How do we think about complex systems in new ways? That will be the challenge of the scholars, and of all of us engaged in thinking about the future. The rest of our _____ will be in the ______. We need to prepare for it now. We need to __________ that the governance structure in the world is fossilized. It cannot begin to cope with the challenges that this will bring. We have to develop a new way of managing the planet, collectively, through collective wisdom.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. understand
  3. future
  4. tapestries
  5. weave
  6. creation

Original Text


An individual, for the first time in the history of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to destroy the planet, to wreck everything, through the creation, for example, of a biopathogen. How do we begin to weave these tapestries together? How do we think about complex systems in new ways? That will be the challenge of the scholars, and of all of us engaged in thinking about the future. The rest of our lives will be in the future. We need to prepare for it now. We need to understand that the governance structure in the world is fossilized. It cannot begin to cope with the challenges that this will bring. We have to develop a new way of managing the planet, collectively, through collective wisdom.

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Important Words


  1. biopathogen
  2. bring
  3. capacity
  4. challenge
  5. challenges
  6. collective
  7. collectively
  8. complex
  9. cope
  10. creation
  11. destroy
  12. develop
  13. engaged
  14. fossilized
  15. future
  16. governance
  17. history
  18. humanity
  19. individual
  20. lives
  21. managing
  22. planet
  23. prepare
  24. rest
  25. scholars
  26. structure
  27. systems
  28. tapestries
  29. thinking
  30. time
  31. understand
  32. ways
  33. weave
  34. wisdom
  35. world
  36. wreck