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From the Ted Talk by Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The conclusion that we came to was that magic had been replaced by machinery. And this made me really sad. I found myself becoming a little bit of a technophobe. I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the aiiblty to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. And it felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.

When I was a little girl, my gaatdhernfr gave me his little silver pocket watch. And this piece of 50-year-old tehnologcy became the most micgaal thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our fncay watches and our cameras had spoetpd us from dreaming. They stopped us from being inspired. And so I jumped in, I jumped into this world of technology, to see how I could use it to eblnae magic as opposed to kill it.

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The conclusion that we came to was that magic had been replaced by machinery. And this made me really sad. I found myself becoming a little bit of a technophobe. I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the _______ to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. And it felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.

When I was a little girl, my ___________ gave me his little silver pocket watch. And this piece of 50-year-old __________ became the most _______ thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our _____ watches and our cameras had _______ us from dreaming. They stopped us from being inspired. And so I jumped in, I jumped into this world of technology, to see how I could use it to ______ magic as opposed to kill it.

Solution


  1. fancy
  2. grandfather
  3. technology
  4. stopped
  5. ability
  6. enable
  7. magical

Original Text


The conclusion that we came to was that magic had been replaced by machinery. And this made me really sad. I found myself becoming a little bit of a technophobe. I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. And it felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.

When I was a little girl, my grandfather gave me his little silver pocket watch. And this piece of 50-year-old technology became the most magical thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our fancy watches and our cameras had stopped us from dreaming. They stopped us from being inspired. And so I jumped in, I jumped into this world of technology, to see how I could use it to enable magic as opposed to kill it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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Important Words


  1. ability
  2. bit
  3. camera
  4. cameras
  5. cellphones
  6. conclusion
  7. dreaming
  8. enable
  9. enjoy
  10. fancy
  11. felt
  12. friends
  13. full
  14. gateway
  15. gave
  16. gilded
  17. girl
  18. grandfather
  19. idea
  20. images
  21. imagination
  22. inspired
  23. jumped
  24. kill
  25. lose
  26. machinery
  27. magic
  28. magical
  29. opposed
  30. piece
  31. pirates
  32. pocket
  33. replaced
  34. sad
  35. shipwrecks
  36. silver
  37. stopped
  38. sunset
  39. technology
  40. technophobe
  41. terrified
  42. tweeting
  43. watch
  44. watches
  45. world