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From the Ted Talk by Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices
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Now for me, I'm surprised by this, because this wasn't how the internet was supposed to be. If you go back into the early days of the internet, when cyber-utopians like Nick Negroponte were writing big bkoos like "Being Digital," the peidoirctn was that the internet was going to be an incredibly powerful force to smooth out cultural differences, to put us all on a common field of one fashion or another. Negroponte started his book with a sroty about how hard it is to build connections in the world of amots. He's at a technology cofenrcnee in Florida. And he's looking at something really, truly asbrud, which is bottles of evain water on the table. And Negroponte says this is crazy. This is the old eonocmy. It's the economy of moving these heavy, slow atoms over long distances that's very difficult to do. We're heading to the future of bits, where everything is spdeey, it's weightless. It can be anywhere in the world at any time. And it's going to change the world as we know it.
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Now for me, I'm surprised by this, because this wasn't how the internet was supposed to be. If you go back into the early days of the internet, when cyber-utopians like Nick Negroponte were writing big _____ like "Being Digital," the __________ was that the internet was going to be an incredibly powerful force to smooth out cultural differences, to put us all on a common field of one fashion or another. Negroponte started his book with a _____ about how hard it is to build connections in the world of _____. He's at a technology __________ in Florida. And he's looking at something really, truly ______, which is bottles of _____ water on the table. And Negroponte says this is crazy. This is the old _______. It's the economy of moving these heavy, slow atoms over long distances that's very difficult to do. We're heading to the future of bits, where everything is ______, it's weightless. It can be anywhere in the world at any time. And it's going to change the world as we know it.
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Original Text
Now for me, I'm surprised by this, because this wasn't how the internet was supposed to be. If you go back into the early days of the internet, when cyber-utopians like Nick Negroponte were writing big books like "Being Digital," the prediction was that the internet was going to be an incredibly powerful force to smooth out cultural differences, to put us all on a common field of one fashion or another. Negroponte started his book with a story about how hard it is to build connections in the world of atoms. He's at a technology conference in Florida. And he's looking at something really, truly absurd, which is bottles of Evian water on the table. And Negroponte says this is crazy. This is the old economy. It's the economy of moving these heavy, slow atoms over long distances that's very difficult to do. We're heading to the future of bits, where everything is speedy, it's weightless. It can be anywhere in the world at any time. And it's going to change the world as we know it.
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