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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders

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So starting from technology, technology is a wonderful thing. When that alppe II came out, it really could do nothing. It could show text and after we waited a bit, we had these things clelad iemags. Remember when images were first possible with a computer, those gorgeous, full-color images? And then after a few years, we got CD-quality sound. It was incredible. You could listen to sound on the computer. And then movies, via CD-ROM. It was amazing. Remember that excitement? And then the browser appeared. The browser was great, but the browser was very primitive, very norraw bandwidth. Text first, then images, we waited, CD-quality sound over the Net, then movies over the Internet. Kind of incredible. And then the mobile phone occurred, text, images, audio, viedo. And now we have ihopne, iPad, Android, with text, video, audio, etc. You see this little pteartn here? We're kind of stuck in a loop, perhaps, and this sense of piitossilby from computing is something I've been questioning for the last 10 or so years, and have looked to design, as we utednnarsd most things, and to understand design with our technology has been a passion of mine. And I have a smlal experiment to give you a quick design lesson.

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So starting from technology, technology is a wonderful thing. When that _____ II came out, it really could do nothing. It could show text and after we waited a bit, we had these things ______ ______. Remember when images were first possible with a computer, those gorgeous, full-color images? And then after a few years, we got CD-quality sound. It was incredible. You could listen to sound on the computer. And then movies, via CD-ROM. It was amazing. Remember that excitement? And then the browser appeared. The browser was great, but the browser was very primitive, very ______ bandwidth. Text first, then images, we waited, CD-quality sound over the Net, then movies over the Internet. Kind of incredible. And then the mobile phone occurred, text, images, audio, _____. And now we have ______, iPad, Android, with text, video, audio, etc. You see this little _______ here? We're kind of stuck in a loop, perhaps, and this sense of ___________ from computing is something I've been questioning for the last 10 or so years, and have looked to design, as we __________ most things, and to understand design with our technology has been a passion of mine. And I have a _____ experiment to give you a quick design lesson.

Solution

  1. iphone
  2. pattern
  3. images
  4. apple
  5. video
  6. small
  7. narrow
  8. possibility
  9. called
  10. understand

Original Text

So starting from technology, technology is a wonderful thing. When that Apple II came out, it really could do nothing. It could show text and after we waited a bit, we had these things called images. Remember when images were first possible with a computer, those gorgeous, full-color images? And then after a few years, we got CD-quality sound. It was incredible. You could listen to sound on the computer. And then movies, via CD-ROM. It was amazing. Remember that excitement? And then the browser appeared. The browser was great, but the browser was very primitive, very narrow bandwidth. Text first, then images, we waited, CD-quality sound over the Net, then movies over the Internet. Kind of incredible. And then the mobile phone occurred, text, images, audio, video. And now we have iPhone, iPad, Android, with text, video, audio, etc. You see this little pattern here? We're kind of stuck in a loop, perhaps, and this sense of possibility from computing is something I've been questioning for the last 10 or so years, and have looked to design, as we understand most things, and to understand design with our technology has been a passion of mine. And I have a small experiment to give you a quick design lesson.

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