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From the Ted Talk by Jack Dangermond: How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Let me give a practical example. The Pacific Gas and Electric coporaoirtn, a very large organization here in California, one of the largest utilities in the world, is srianhg their outage and utility iromofnitan over the web with the satte of California fire people and emergency management people, so that they can act better and vice versa. So they're sharing and conilaartlobg through gehaogpric information in whole new ways. And the FEMA, the large federal emergency management organization is sharing their enemecrgy management information with states and cities who are overlaying their data on FEMA data, which is overlaying on top of NOAA's information on the weather and the taricnkg of satellites, and so on. So this web-based, internet-based system is allowing the fusion of information from many different actors. And independently, these actors are able to more holistically solve their problems.

Open Cloze


Let me give a practical example. The Pacific Gas and Electric ___________, a very large organization here in California, one of the largest utilities in the world, is _______ their outage and utility ___________ over the web with the _____ of California fire people and emergency management people, so that they can act better and vice versa. So they're sharing and _____________ through __________ information in whole new ways. And the FEMA, the large federal emergency management organization is sharing their _________ management information with states and cities who are overlaying their data on FEMA data, which is overlaying on top of NOAA's information on the weather and the ________ of satellites, and so on. So this web-based, internet-based system is allowing the fusion of information from many different actors. And independently, these actors are able to more holistically solve their problems.

Solution


  1. sharing
  2. information
  3. geographic
  4. emergency
  5. tracking
  6. corporation
  7. state
  8. collaborating

Original Text


Let me give a practical example. The Pacific Gas and Electric corporation, a very large organization here in California, one of the largest utilities in the world, is sharing their outage and utility information over the web with the State of California fire people and emergency management people, so that they can act better and vice versa. So they're sharing and collaborating through geographic information in whole new ways. And the FEMA, the large federal emergency management organization is sharing their emergency management information with states and cities who are overlaying their data on FEMA data, which is overlaying on top of NOAA's information on the weather and the tracking of satellites, and so on. So this web-based, internet-based system is allowing the fusion of information from many different actors. And independently, these actors are able to more holistically solve their problems.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. act
  2. actors
  3. allowing
  4. california
  5. cities
  6. collaborating
  7. corporation
  8. data
  9. electric
  10. emergency
  11. federal
  12. fema
  13. fire
  14. fusion
  15. gas
  16. geographic
  17. give
  18. holistically
  19. independently
  20. information
  21. large
  22. largest
  23. management
  24. organization
  25. outage
  26. overlaying
  27. pacific
  28. people
  29. practical
  30. problems
  31. satellites
  32. sharing
  33. solve
  34. state
  35. states
  36. system
  37. top
  38. tracking
  39. utilities
  40. utility
  41. versa
  42. vice
  43. ways
  44. weather
  45. web
  46. world