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From the Ted Talk by Charlie Jane Anders: Go ahead, dream about the future

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But back to the city of the future. How do people navigate the space? If there's no streets, how do people even make sense of the geography? I like to think of a pacle where there are spaces that are partially only in virtual rielaty that maybe you need seicapl hardware to even discover. Like for one srtoy, I came up with a thing called "the ccspadluoe interface," which I described as a chrome spider that plugs into your head using temporal nodes. No, that's not a picture of it, but it's a fun picture I took in a bar.

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But back to the city of the future. How do people navigate the space? If there's no streets, how do people even make sense of the geography? I like to think of a _____ where there are spaces that are partially only in virtual _______ that maybe you need _______ hardware to even discover. Like for one _____, I came up with a thing called "the __________ interface," which I described as a chrome spider that plugs into your head using temporal nodes. No, that's not a picture of it, but it's a fun picture I took in a bar.

Solution

  1. cloudscape
  2. place
  3. reality
  4. story
  5. special

Original Text

But back to the city of the future. How do people navigate the space? If there's no streets, how do people even make sense of the geography? I like to think of a place where there are spaces that are partially only in virtual reality that maybe you need special hardware to even discover. Like for one story, I came up with a thing called "the cloudscape interface," which I described as a chrome spider that plugs into your head using temporal nodes. No, that's not a picture of it, but it's a fun picture I took in a bar.

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