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From the Ted Talk by Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now"

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Just how can we prioritize in the landscape of the dgiatil now? This digital now is not the present, because it's always a few seconds ahead, with Twitter srtemas that are already trending and news from other time znoes. This isn't the now of a shooting pain in your foot or the second that you bite into a ptasry or the three hours that you lose yourself in a geart book. This now bears very little physical or psychological reference to our own state. Its focus, instead, is to distract us at every turn on the road. Every digital landmark is an invitation to leave what you are doing now to go somewhere else and do something else. Are you reading an interview by an author? Why not buy his book? Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Find other books exactly like his. Find other pelpoe reading those bokos. trveal can be liberating, but when it is incessant, we become permanent elexis without repose. Choice is freedom, but not when it's constantly for its own sake.

Open Cloze

Just how can we prioritize in the landscape of the _______ now? This digital now is not the present, because it's always a few seconds ahead, with Twitter _______ that are already trending and news from other time _____. This isn't the now of a shooting pain in your foot or the second that you bite into a ______ or the three hours that you lose yourself in a _____ book. This now bears very little physical or psychological reference to our own state. Its focus, instead, is to distract us at every turn on the road. Every digital landmark is an invitation to leave what you are doing now to go somewhere else and do something else. Are you reading an interview by an author? Why not buy his book? Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Find other books exactly like his. Find other ______ reading those _____. ______ can be liberating, but when it is incessant, we become permanent ______ without repose. Choice is freedom, but not when it's constantly for its own sake.

Solution

  1. travel
  2. books
  3. streams
  4. people
  5. great
  6. zones
  7. pastry
  8. exiles
  9. digital

Original Text

Just how can we prioritize in the landscape of the digital now? This digital now is not the present, because it's always a few seconds ahead, with Twitter streams that are already trending and news from other time zones. This isn't the now of a shooting pain in your foot or the second that you bite into a pastry or the three hours that you lose yourself in a great book. This now bears very little physical or psychological reference to our own state. Its focus, instead, is to distract us at every turn on the road. Every digital landmark is an invitation to leave what you are doing now to go somewhere else and do something else. Are you reading an interview by an author? Why not buy his book? Tweet it. Share it. Like it. Find other books exactly like his. Find other people reading those books. Travel can be liberating, but when it is incessant, we become permanent exiles without repose. Choice is freedom, but not when it's constantly for its own sake.

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Important Words

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  15. freedom
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  20. invitation
  21. landmark
  22. landscape
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  24. liberating
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  26. news
  27. pain
  28. pastry
  29. people
  30. permanent
  31. physical
  32. present
  33. prioritize
  34. psychological
  35. reading
  36. reference
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  38. road
  39. sake
  40. seconds
  41. share
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  43. state
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  45. time
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  47. trending
  48. turn
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  51. zones