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From the Ted Talk by Deb Chachra: The invisible networks shaping your everyday life

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So our infrastructural systems connect us to each other, but they also connect us to the land around us. And this is now true really on a global slcae, right? So if we think about the internet, we think about mobile phones, we think about particularly sort of shipping and transportation, aviation. These are now planetary networks. And our ifrsrtanuuratcl systems also cocnnet us to our past and to our future, because the nkwteros that we live in today are the physical manifestation of the values and cheicos that were made by people who came before us, right? It's like, what are those networks going to be? How will we use them? Who would benefit from them? And of course, who would be harmed by them?

Open Cloze


So our infrastructural systems connect us to each other, but they also connect us to the land around us. And this is now true really on a global _____, right? So if we think about the internet, we think about mobile phones, we think about particularly sort of shipping and transportation, aviation. These are now planetary networks. And our _______________ systems also _______ us to our past and to our future, because the ________ that we live in today are the physical manifestation of the values and _______ that were made by people who came before us, right? It's like, what are those networks going to be? How will we use them? Who would benefit from them? And of course, who would be harmed by them?

Solution


  1. connect
  2. scale
  3. infrastructural
  4. choices
  5. networks

Original Text


So our infrastructural systems connect us to each other, but they also connect us to the land around us. And this is now true really on a global scale, right? So if we think about the internet, we think about mobile phones, we think about particularly sort of shipping and transportation, aviation. These are now planetary networks. And our infrastructural systems also connect us to our past and to our future, because the networks that we live in today are the physical manifestation of the values and choices that were made by people who came before us, right? It's like, what are those networks going to be? How will we use them? Who would benefit from them? And of course, who would be harmed by them?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. aviation
  2. benefit
  3. choices
  4. connect
  5. future
  6. global
  7. harmed
  8. infrastructural
  9. internet
  10. land
  11. live
  12. manifestation
  13. mobile
  14. networks
  15. people
  16. phones
  17. physical
  18. planetary
  19. scale
  20. shipping
  21. sort
  22. systems
  23. today
  24. transportation
  25. true
  26. values