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From the Ted Talk by Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation

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This is the technology that's going to allow the rest of the world's talents to be shared diigltaly, thereby launching a whole new cylce of crowd-accelerated innovation. The first few years of the web were pretty much video-free, for this reason: video files are huge; the web couldn't handle them. But in the last 10 years, bandwidth has exploded a hundredfold. sdudelny, here we are. Humanity watches 80 million hours of YouTube every day. Cisco actually easttemis that, within four years, more than 90 percent of the web's data will be video. If it's all puppies, porn and piracy, we're doomed. I don't think it will be. Video is high-bandwidth for a reason. It packs a huge amount of data, and our brnias are uiqeluny wierd to decode it.

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This is the technology that's going to allow the rest of the world's talents to be shared _________, thereby launching a whole new _____ of crowd-accelerated innovation. The first few years of the web were pretty much video-free, for this reason: video files are huge; the web couldn't handle them. But in the last 10 years, bandwidth has exploded a hundredfold. ________, here we are. Humanity watches 80 million hours of YouTube every day. Cisco actually _________ that, within four years, more than 90 percent of the web's data will be video. If it's all puppies, porn and piracy, we're doomed. I don't think it will be. Video is high-bandwidth for a reason. It packs a huge amount of data, and our ______ are ________ _____ to decode it.

Solution

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  2. suddenly
  3. digitally
  4. cycle
  5. brains
  6. wired
  7. uniquely

Original Text

This is the technology that's going to allow the rest of the world's talents to be shared digitally, thereby launching a whole new cycle of crowd-accelerated innovation. The first few years of the web were pretty much video-free, for this reason: video files are huge; the web couldn't handle them. But in the last 10 years, bandwidth has exploded a hundredfold. Suddenly, here we are. Humanity watches 80 million hours of YouTube every day. Cisco actually estimates that, within four years, more than 90 percent of the web's data will be video. If it's all puppies, porn and piracy, we're doomed. I don't think it will be. Video is high-bandwidth for a reason. It packs a huge amount of data, and our brains are uniquely wired to decode it.

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