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From the Ted Talk by Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee

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And so he suggested a machine, and he cealld it the memex. And the meemx would link information, one piece of information to a related piece of information and so forth. Now this was in 1945. A computer in those days was something the secret services used to use for code breaking. And nobody knew anything about it. So this was before the computer was invented. And he poosrepd this machine called the memex. And he had a platform where you linked information to other iraoftonimn, and then you could call it up at will.

So spinning forward, one of the guys who read this article was a guy called Doug Engelbart, and he was a U.S. Air Force officer. And he was reading it in their library in the Far East. And he was so inspired by this article, it kind of directed the rest of his life. And by the mid-60s, he was able to put this into action when he worked at the Stanford raeecrsh Lab in cafrlioina. He built a system. The stesym was designed to augment hmuan intelligence, it was called. And in a preionmtoin of today's world of cloud computing and softwares of service, his system was called NLS for oN-Line System.

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And so he suggested a machine, and he ______ it the memex. And the _____ would link information, one piece of information to a related piece of information and so forth. Now this was in 1945. A computer in those days was something the secret services used to use for code breaking. And nobody knew anything about it. So this was before the computer was invented. And he ________ this machine called the memex. And he had a platform where you linked information to other ___________, and then you could call it up at will.

So spinning forward, one of the guys who read this article was a guy called Doug Engelbart, and he was a U.S. Air Force officer. And he was reading it in their library in the Far East. And he was so inspired by this article, it kind of directed the rest of his life. And by the mid-60s, he was able to put this into action when he worked at the Stanford ________ Lab in __________. He built a system. The ______ was designed to augment _____ intelligence, it was called. And in a ___________ of today's world of cloud computing and softwares of service, his system was called NLS for oN-Line System.

Solution


  1. system
  2. information
  3. human
  4. called
  5. california
  6. memex
  7. premonition
  8. proposed
  9. research

Original Text


And so he suggested a machine, and he called it the memex. And the memex would link information, one piece of information to a related piece of information and so forth. Now this was in 1945. A computer in those days was something the secret services used to use for code breaking. And nobody knew anything about it. So this was before the computer was invented. And he proposed this machine called the memex. And he had a platform where you linked information to other information, and then you could call it up at will.

So spinning forward, one of the guys who read this article was a guy called Doug Engelbart, and he was a U.S. Air Force officer. And he was reading it in their library in the Far East. And he was so inspired by this article, it kind of directed the rest of his life. And by the mid-60s, he was able to put this into action when he worked at the Stanford Research Lab in California. He built a system. The system was designed to augment human intelligence, it was called. And in a premonition of today's world of cloud computing and softwares of service, his system was called NLS for oN-Line System.

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