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From the Ted Talk by Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind

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One of the most important topics of the show — you know, as anything in our life _____, we can look at it from many, many different viewpoints, and at different ______. One of the most interesting and most important concepts is the idea of scale. We change scale very often: we change __________ of screens, and we're not really fazed by it, we do it very comfortably. So you go, even in the exhibition, from the idea of nanotechnology and the nanoscale to the ____________ of really great _______ of data — the mapping and tagging of the universe and of the _____. In this particular case a section will be devoted to information design. You see here the work of Ben Fry. This is "Human vs. Chimps" — the few ___________ that distinguish us from chimps. It was a beautiful visualization that he did for Seed ________. And here's the whole code of Pac-Man, visualized with all the go-to, go-back-to, also made into a beautiful choreography.

Solution

  1. manipulation
  2. levels
  3. resolution
  4. chromosomes
  5. today
  6. magazine
  7. world
  8. amounts

Original Text

One of the most important topics of the show — you know, as anything in our life today, we can look at it from many, many different viewpoints, and at different levels. One of the most interesting and most important concepts is the idea of scale. We change scale very often: we change resolution of screens, and we're not really fazed by it, we do it very comfortably. So you go, even in the exhibition, from the idea of nanotechnology and the nanoscale to the manipulation of really great amounts of data — the mapping and tagging of the universe and of the world. In this particular case a section will be devoted to information design. You see here the work of Ben Fry. This is "Human vs. Chimps" — the few chromosomes that distinguish us from chimps. It was a beautiful visualization that he did for Seed magazine. And here's the whole code of Pac-Man, visualized with all the go-to, go-back-to, also made into a beautiful choreography.

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