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From the Ted Talk by Peter Hirshberg: The web is more than "better TV"

Unscramble the Blue Letters


PH: There's been an uneasy relationship between the TV business and the tech business, really ever since they both turned about 30. We go through pdreois of enthrallment, followed by reactions in bomoadrors, in the fnacnie community best characterized as, what's the finance term? Ick pooey.

Let me give you an example of this. The year is 1976, and Warner buys aatri because vdeio games are on the rise. The next year they march forward and they introduce Qube, the first interactive clbae TV system, and the New York Times heralds this as tamcinluoeemtoincs moving to the home, convergence, great things are happening. Everybody in the East Coast gets in the piurects — Citicorp, Penney, RCA — all getting into this big vision. By the way, this is about when I enter the picture. I'm going to do a summer ireinhstnp at Time Warner. That summer I'm all — I'm at Warner that summer — I'm all excited to work on convergence, and then the bottom fllas out. Doesn't work out too well for them, they lose menoy. And I had a happy brush with convergence until, kind of, Warner basically has to liquidate the whole thing.

Open Cloze


PH: There's been an uneasy relationship between the TV business and the tech business, really ever since they both turned about 30. We go through _______ of enthrallment, followed by reactions in __________, in the _______ community best characterized as, what's the finance term? Ick pooey.

Let me give you an example of this. The year is 1976, and Warner buys _____ because _____ games are on the rise. The next year they march forward and they introduce Qube, the first interactive _____ TV system, and the New York Times heralds this as __________________ moving to the home, convergence, great things are happening. Everybody in the East Coast gets in the ________ — Citicorp, Penney, RCA — all getting into this big vision. By the way, this is about when I enter the picture. I'm going to do a summer __________ at Time Warner. That summer I'm all — I'm at Warner that summer — I'm all excited to work on convergence, and then the bottom _____ out. Doesn't work out too well for them, they lose _____. And I had a happy brush with convergence until, kind of, Warner basically has to liquidate the whole thing.

Solution


  1. boardrooms
  2. telecommunications
  3. periods
  4. finance
  5. money
  6. falls
  7. cable
  8. pictures
  9. video
  10. internship
  11. atari

Original Text


PH: There's been an uneasy relationship between the TV business and the tech business, really ever since they both turned about 30. We go through periods of enthrallment, followed by reactions in boardrooms, in the finance community best characterized as, what's the finance term? Ick pooey.

Let me give you an example of this. The year is 1976, and Warner buys Atari because video games are on the rise. The next year they march forward and they introduce Qube, the first interactive cable TV system, and the New York Times heralds this as telecommunications moving to the home, convergence, great things are happening. Everybody in the East Coast gets in the pictures — Citicorp, Penney, RCA — all getting into this big vision. By the way, this is about when I enter the picture. I'm going to do a summer internship at Time Warner. That summer I'm all — I'm at Warner that summer — I'm all excited to work on convergence, and then the bottom falls out. Doesn't work out too well for them, they lose money. And I had a happy brush with convergence until, kind of, Warner basically has to liquidate the whole thing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  33. liquidate
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