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From the Ted Talk by Jan Chipchase: The anthropology of mobile phones

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This is a pair of untdnraeps from — (Laughter) — from Tibet. And I look at something like this, and honestly, you know, why would someone design underpants with a pocket, right? And I look at something like this and it makes me question, if we were to take all the functionality in things like this, and redistribute them around the body in some kind of paeonsrl area network, how would we prioritize where to put stuff? And yes, this is quite trivial, but actually the lessons from this can apply to that kind of personal area networks. And what you see here is a couple of phone numbers written above the schak in ruarl Uganda. This doesn't have house numbers. This has pnhoe numbers. So what does it mean when people's identity is mobile? When those extra three billion people's identity is mobile, it isn't fixed? Your ntoion of identity is out-of-date already, OK, for those extra three blliion popele. This is how it's shifting.

Open Cloze

This is a pair of __________ from — (Laughter) — from Tibet. And I look at something like this, and honestly, you know, why would someone design underpants with a pocket, right? And I look at something like this and it makes me question, if we were to take all the functionality in things like this, and redistribute them around the body in some kind of ________ area network, how would we prioritize where to put stuff? And yes, this is quite trivial, but actually the lessons from this can apply to that kind of personal area networks. And what you see here is a couple of phone numbers written above the _____ in _____ Uganda. This doesn't have house numbers. This has _____ numbers. So what does it mean when people's identity is mobile? When those extra three billion people's identity is mobile, it isn't fixed? Your ______ of identity is out-of-date already, OK, for those extra three _______ ______. This is how it's shifting.

Solution

  1. notion
  2. rural
  3. shack
  4. people
  5. billion
  6. underpants
  7. phone
  8. personal

Original Text

This is a pair of underpants from — (Laughter) — from Tibet. And I look at something like this, and honestly, you know, why would someone design underpants with a pocket, right? And I look at something like this and it makes me question, if we were to take all the functionality in things like this, and redistribute them around the body in some kind of personal area network, how would we prioritize where to put stuff? And yes, this is quite trivial, but actually the lessons from this can apply to that kind of personal area networks. And what you see here is a couple of phone numbers written above the shack in rural Uganda. This doesn't have house numbers. This has phone numbers. So what does it mean when people's identity is mobile? When those extra three billion people's identity is mobile, it isn't fixed? Your notion of identity is out-of-date already, OK, for those extra three billion people. This is how it's shifting.

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