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From the Ted Talk by The TED Interview: Roger McNamee takes on big tech
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
CA: I want to come on to those ________. But just spend a second just talking about the gift. Even now, there's a huge gift, you're talking about 2.3 billion users. There are a lot of people around the world whose internet experience is ________. I have met many people who have learned what they've learned on the internet via Facebook, and who, through Facebook, have been connected to a wide group of people from many countries who have ___________ their _____. There's probably, literally, hundreds of ________ of stories of human connection that ______ out the right way, so let's put that on the table and not forget that that is there. And now come back to the crap.
Solution
- lives
- transformed
- problems
- worked
- facebook
- millions
Original Text
CA: I want to come on to those problems. But just spend a second just talking about the gift. Even now, there's a huge gift, you're talking about 2.3 billion users. There are a lot of people around the world whose internet experience is Facebook. I have met many people who have learned what they've learned on the internet via Facebook, and who, through Facebook, have been connected to a wide group of people from many countries who have transformed their lives. There's probably, literally, hundreds of millions of stories of human connection that worked out the right way, so let's put that on the table and not forget that that is there. And now come back to the crap.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
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| business model |
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| silicon valley |
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| tech companies |
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| political ads |
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| ted interview |
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| smart phones |
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| united states |
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| behavioral prediction |
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| data sets |
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| behavioral manipulation |
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| bernie sanders |
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| spreading virally |
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| ad tools |
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| black lives |
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| urban development |
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| million people |
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| bad actors |
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| paul van |
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| sandy hook |
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| hook parents |
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ngrams of length 3
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| evil silicon valley |
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| sandy hook parents |
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Important Words
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