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From the Ted Talk by Alex Rosenthal: The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Ethic is about to deactivate the force field when Lemma stops her. She explains, a dacdee ago, she was assigned a research task: to use the world machine to cetrae something that would make everyone hpapy. After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ieesgntd, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves. It was rushed into production. Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the comonupd mixed in. The first year was paradise. The second, not so much. Side-effects beagn to emerge: memory-loss, listlessness, and self-absorption. In the third year, the government dissolved, leaving the robots running everything in a self-sustaining loop. By this point things were too far gone for Lemma to reverse. People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things. It took 10 years for Lemma to find a cure. This factory contains everything she’ll need to make it, but the second they take the Node of Memory, the security setysm will alert the robots, and they’ll have to run. If, instead, they first reconfigure the faoctry to mcnaatuurfe the cure, the people can be saved.
Open Cloze
Ethic is about to deactivate the force field when Lemma stops her. She explains, a ______ ago, she was assigned a research task: to use the world machine to ______ something that would make everyone _____. After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ________, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves. It was rushed into production. Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the ________ mixed in. The first year was paradise. The second, not so much. Side-effects _____ to emerge: memory-loss, listlessness, and self-absorption. In the third year, the government dissolved, leaving the robots running everything in a self-sustaining loop. By this point things were too far gone for Lemma to reverse. People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things. It took 10 years for Lemma to find a cure. This factory contains everything she’ll need to make it, but the second they take the Node of Memory, the security ______ will alert the robots, and they’ll have to run. If, instead, they first reconfigure the _______ to ___________ the cure, the people can be saved.
Solution
- create
- system
- began
- factory
- ingested
- compound
- decade
- happy
- manufacture
Original Text
Ethic is about to deactivate the force field when Lemma stops her. She explains, a decade ago, she was assigned a research task: to use the world machine to create something that would make everyone happy. After many failed attempts, Lemma discovered a compound that, when ingested, made people motivated, happy, creative, loving… in short, their best selves. It was rushed into production. Soon, the entire nation’s food supply came from Huxenborg, with the compound mixed in. The first year was paradise. The second, not so much. Side-effects began to emerge: memory-loss, listlessness, and self-absorption. In the third year, the government dissolved, leaving the robots running everything in a self-sustaining loop. By this point things were too far gone for Lemma to reverse. People had become dependent on the compound, and the few who refused it formed a resistance to try to fix things. It took 10 years for Lemma to find a cure. This factory contains everything she’ll need to make it, but the second they take the Node of Memory, the security system will alert the robots, and they’ll have to run. If, instead, they first reconfigure the factory to manufacture the cure, the people can be saved.
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