full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Kevin Kelly: Technology's epic story

Unscramble the Blue Letters

One of the first things I started to investigate was the history of the name of technology. In the uetnid States, there is a State of the Union address given by every president since 1790. And each one of those is kind of summing up the most important things for the United States at that time. If you search for the word "technology," it was not used until 1952. So, toehgncloy was sort of aenbst from everybody's thinking until 1952, which happened to be the year of my btirh. And obviously, technology had existed before then, but we weren't aware of it. And so it was sort of an awakening of this force in our life.

Open Cloze

One of the first things I started to investigate was the history of the name of technology. In the ______ States, there is a State of the Union address given by every president since 1790. And each one of those is kind of summing up the most important things for the United States at that time. If you search for the word "technology," it was not used until 1952. So, __________ was sort of ______ from everybody's thinking until 1952, which happened to be the year of my _____. And obviously, technology had existed before then, but we weren't aware of it. And so it was sort of an awakening of this force in our life.

Solution

  1. united
  2. technology
  3. birth
  4. absent

Original Text

One of the first things I started to investigate was the history of the name of technology. In the United States, there is a State of the Union address given by every president since 1790. And each one of those is kind of summing up the most important things for the United States at that time. If you search for the word "technology," it was not used until 1952. So, technology was sort of absent from everybody's thinking until 1952, which happened to be the year of my birth. And obviously, technology had existed before then, but we weren't aware of it. And so it was sort of an awakening of this force in our life.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bad idea 4
climate change 3
average age 2
small amount 2
powerful force 2
dominant force 2
energy density 2
king henry 2
entire wealth 2
good job 2

Important Words

  1. absent
  2. address
  3. awakening
  4. aware
  5. birth
  6. existed
  7. force
  8. happened
  9. history
  10. important
  11. investigate
  12. kind
  13. life
  14. president
  15. search
  16. sort
  17. started
  18. state
  19. states
  20. summing
  21. technology
  22. thinking
  23. time
  24. union
  25. united
  26. word
  27. year