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From the Ted Talk by Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future
Unscramble the Blue Letters
An individual, for the first time in the hositry of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to drsteoy the planet, to wreck everything, through the creation, for example, of a biopathogen. How do we begin to wavee these tapestries together? How do we think about complex systems in new ways? That will be the challenge of the scholars, and of all of us engaged in thinking about the future. The rest of our lvies will be in the future. We need to prepare for it now. We need to understand that the governance structure in the wrold is fossilized. It cannot begin to cope with the challenges that this will bring. We have to develop a new way of managing the planet, civlolcletey, through collective wisdom.
Open Cloze
An individual, for the first time in the _______ of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to _______ the planet, to wreck everything, through the creation, for example, of a biopathogen. How do we begin to _____ these tapestries together? How do we think about complex systems in new ways? That will be the challenge of the scholars, and of all of us engaged in thinking about the future. The rest of our _____ will be in the future. We need to prepare for it now. We need to understand that the governance structure in the _____ is fossilized. It cannot begin to cope with the challenges that this will bring. We have to develop a new way of managing the planet, ____________, through collective wisdom.
Solution
- history
- lives
- collectively
- weave
- world
- destroy
Original Text
An individual, for the first time in the history of humanity, will have the capacity, by 2030, to destroy the planet, to wreck everything, through the creation, for example, of a biopathogen. How do we begin to weave these tapestries together? How do we think about complex systems in new ways? That will be the challenge of the scholars, and of all of us engaged in thinking about the future. The rest of our lives will be in the future. We need to prepare for it now. We need to understand that the governance structure in the world is fossilized. It cannot begin to cope with the challenges that this will bring. We have to develop a new way of managing the planet, collectively, through collective wisdom.
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Important Words
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- humanity
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- planet
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- scholars
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