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From the Ted Talk by Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner

Unscramble the Blue Letters

On the subject of Google, tdoay you can search and tag images based on the thoughts and flngeeis you had while you wcehatd them. You can tag pictures of baby animals as happy, or whatever baby animals are to you, and then you can search that daatsabe, navigating with your feelings, rather than the keywords that just hint at them. Or you could tag Facebook phoots with the emotions that you had associated with those memories and then instantly prioritize the smaerts that catch your attention, just like this. Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and buinildg technology seamlessly in tandem with it. As it aligns with our human briaveohs, it can allow us to make better sense of what we do and, more importantly, why. Creating a big picture out of all the important little details that make up who we are.

Open Cloze

On the subject of Google, _____ you can search and tag images based on the thoughts and ________ you had while you _______ them. You can tag pictures of baby animals as happy, or whatever baby animals are to you, and then you can search that ________, navigating with your feelings, rather than the keywords that just hint at them. Or you could tag Facebook ______ with the emotions that you had associated with those memories and then instantly prioritize the _______ that catch your attention, just like this. Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and ________ technology seamlessly in tandem with it. As it aligns with our human _________, it can allow us to make better sense of what we do and, more importantly, why. Creating a big picture out of all the important little details that make up who we are.

Solution

  1. building
  2. behaviors
  3. database
  4. streams
  5. feelings
  6. today
  7. watched
  8. photos

Original Text

On the subject of Google, today you can search and tag images based on the thoughts and feelings you had while you watched them. You can tag pictures of baby animals as happy, or whatever baby animals are to you, and then you can search that database, navigating with your feelings, rather than the keywords that just hint at them. Or you could tag Facebook photos with the emotions that you had associated with those memories and then instantly prioritize the streams that catch your attention, just like this. Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it. As it aligns with our human behaviors, it can allow us to make better sense of what we do and, more importantly, why. Creating a big picture out of all the important little details that make up who we are.

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