From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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So what we see — (Laughter) what we see in this phenomenon is something that the ______, late traffic engineer Hans Monderman discovered in the Netherlands, and here in South Kensington, that sometimes if you remove some of the external rules and signs and everything else, you can actually end up with a safer environment in which people can function, and one in which they are more human with each other. They're realizing that they have to take ______________ for what they do. And Wikipedia has embraced this.
Some of you may remember Star Wars Kid, the poor ________ who filmed himself with a golf ball retriever, acting as if it were a _____ saber. The film, without his permission or even knowledge at first, found its way onto the ________. ______ viral _____. Extremely popular. Totally mortifying to him.
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Original Text
So what we see — (Laughter) what we see in this phenomenon is something that the crazed, late traffic engineer Hans Monderman discovered in the Netherlands, and here in South Kensington, that sometimes if you remove some of the external rules and signs and everything else, you can actually end up with a safer environment in which people can function, and one in which they are more human with each other. They're realizing that they have to take responsibility for what they do. And Wikipedia has embraced this.
Some of you may remember Star Wars Kid, the poor teenager who filmed himself with a golf ball retriever, acting as if it were a light saber. The film, without his permission or even knowledge at first, found its way onto the Internet. Hugely viral video. Extremely popular. Totally mortifying to him.