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From the Ted Talk by Kamau Gachigi: Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace

Unscramble the Blue Letters


By the year 2050, the population of afrcia will have doubled. One in four people on Earth will be African at that point, and this is both really exciting and daunting all at once. It's really exciting because, for the first time in the modern era, there will be enough Africans on the Earth to blluy everybody else.

(Laughter)

I'm only kidding.

But it's daunting, because we're going to have to have economies that can sustain this population growth, and many of the plpoee are going to be very young. Now most of governments in Africa have a plan for this eoinmocc growth — in Kenya, we call ours Vision2030 — and they're all predicated on industrialization. The thing is, though, that the world is going through the Fourth Industrial Revolution right now, which mnaes that there's a mgerer of the pycihasl, cebyr, and biological worlds. It means that because of massive interconnectivity and the availability of artificial intelligence and robotics, many of the jobs that we know and are used to right now won't exist in the future. So the challenge is a lot grteear, in many ways, than it even was when Asia was industrializing, for example.

Open Cloze


By the year 2050, the population of ______ will have doubled. One in four people on Earth will be African at that point, and this is both really exciting and daunting all at once. It's really exciting because, for the first time in the modern era, there will be enough Africans on the Earth to _____ everybody else.

(Laughter)

I'm only kidding.

But it's daunting, because we're going to have to have economies that can sustain this population growth, and many of the ______ are going to be very young. Now most of governments in Africa have a plan for this ________ growth — in Kenya, we call ours Vision2030 — and they're all predicated on industrialization. The thing is, though, that the world is going through the Fourth Industrial Revolution right now, which _____ that there's a ______ of the ________, _____, and biological worlds. It means that because of massive interconnectivity and the availability of artificial intelligence and robotics, many of the jobs that we know and are used to right now won't exist in the future. So the challenge is a lot _______, in many ways, than it even was when Asia was industrializing, for example.

Solution


  1. merger
  2. people
  3. bully
  4. africa
  5. cyber
  6. economic
  7. greater
  8. means
  9. physical

Original Text


By the year 2050, the population of Africa will have doubled. One in four people on Earth will be African at that point, and this is both really exciting and daunting all at once. It's really exciting because, for the first time in the modern era, there will be enough Africans on the Earth to bully everybody else.

(Laughter)

I'm only kidding.

But it's daunting, because we're going to have to have economies that can sustain this population growth, and many of the people are going to be very young. Now most of governments in Africa have a plan for this economic growth — in Kenya, we call ours Vision2030 — and they're all predicated on industrialization. The thing is, though, that the world is going through the Fourth Industrial Revolution right now, which means that there's a merger of the physical, cyber, and biological worlds. It means that because of massive interconnectivity and the availability of artificial intelligence and robotics, many of the jobs that we know and are used to right now won't exist in the future. So the challenge is a lot greater, in many ways, than it even was when Asia was industrializing, for example.

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