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From the Ted Talk by Jan Chipchase: The anthropology of mobile phones

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And there are four things. So, the first thing is the idcmieamy of ideas, the speed at which ideas go around. And I know TED is about big ideas, but actually, the benchmark for a big idea is cinnhgag. If you want a big idea, you need to embrace everyone on the planet, that's the first thing.

The second thing is the immediacy of objects. And what I mean by that is, as these become saellmr, as the finttulncaoiy that you can access through this becomes greater — things like banking, identity — these things quite simply move very quickly around the world. And so the speed of the adoption of things is just going to become that much more rapid, in a way that we just totally cannot cvicenoe, when you get it to 6.3 billion and the growth in the world's population.

Open Cloze


And there are four things. So, the first thing is the _________ of ideas, the speed at which ideas go around. And I know TED is about big ideas, but actually, the benchmark for a big idea is ________. If you want a big idea, you need to embrace everyone on the planet, that's the first thing.

The second thing is the immediacy of objects. And what I mean by that is, as these become _______, as the _____________ that you can access through this becomes greater — things like banking, identity — these things quite simply move very quickly around the world. And so the speed of the adoption of things is just going to become that much more rapid, in a way that we just totally cannot ________, when you get it to 6.3 billion and the growth in the world's population.

Solution


  1. functionality
  2. smaller
  3. immediacy
  4. changing
  5. conceive

Original Text


And there are four things. So, the first thing is the immediacy of ideas, the speed at which ideas go around. And I know TED is about big ideas, but actually, the benchmark for a big idea is changing. If you want a big idea, you need to embrace everyone on the planet, that's the first thing.

The second thing is the immediacy of objects. And what I mean by that is, as these become smaller, as the functionality that you can access through this becomes greater — things like banking, identity — these things quite simply move very quickly around the world. And so the speed of the adoption of things is just going to become that much more rapid, in a way that we just totally cannot conceive, when you get it to 6.3 billion and the growth in the world's population.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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billion people 3
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phone kiosk 2
kiosk operator 2
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personal area 2
phone numbers 2


Important Words


  1. access
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  16. immediacy
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  18. objects
  19. planet
  20. population
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  24. smaller
  25. speed
  26. ted
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  28. world