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From the Ted Talk by Charlie Jane Anders: Go ahead, dream about the future
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And, you know, there's a kind of loaigcl fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet uionn would still be around today. But the future is going to be much wrieedr than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, srcay things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.
Open Cloze
And, you know, there's a kind of _______ fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet _____ would still be around today. But the future is going to be much _______ than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, _____ things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.
Solution
- scary
- logical
- weirder
- union
Original Text
And, you know, there's a kind of logical fallacy that we all have where we expect the future to be an extension of the present. Like, people in the 1980s thought that the Soviet Union would still be around today. But the future is going to be much weirder than we could possibly dream of. But we can try. And I know that there are going to be scary, scary things, but there's also going to be wonders and saving graces. And the first step to finding your way forward is to let your imagination run free.
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Important Words
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- people
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- present
- run
- saving
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