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From the Ted Talk by Steven Johnson: The Web as a city
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So in a sense, bursty wbgleos coming from new voices. So he's wronkig on a tool right there that can actually change the overall system. And it creates a kind of planned emergence. You're not toallty in control, but you're changing the underlying rules in interesting ways because you have an end rlsuet which is maybe a more democratic spread of voices. So the most amazing thing about this — and I'll end on this note — is, most emergent systems, most self-organizing systems are not made up of component parts that are capable of looking at the overall pattern and changing their behavior based on whether they like the ptteran or not. So the most wonderful thing, I think, about this whole debate about power laws and sotfawre that could change it is the fact that we're having the cieortsvanon. I hope it continues here. Thanks a lot.
Open Cloze
So in a sense, bursty _______ coming from new voices. So he's _______ on a tool right there that can actually change the overall system. And it creates a kind of planned emergence. You're not _______ in control, but you're changing the underlying rules in interesting ways because you have an end ______ which is maybe a more democratic spread of voices. So the most amazing thing about this — and I'll end on this note — is, most emergent systems, most self-organizing systems are not made up of component parts that are capable of looking at the overall pattern and changing their behavior based on whether they like the _______ or not. So the most wonderful thing, I think, about this whole debate about power laws and ________ that could change it is the fact that we're having the ____________. I hope it continues here. Thanks a lot.
Solution
- weblogs
- pattern
- result
- conversation
- working
- software
- totally
Original Text
So in a sense, bursty weblogs coming from new voices. So he's working on a tool right there that can actually change the overall system. And it creates a kind of planned emergence. You're not totally in control, but you're changing the underlying rules in interesting ways because you have an end result which is maybe a more democratic spread of voices. So the most amazing thing about this — and I'll end on this note — is, most emergent systems, most self-organizing systems are not made up of component parts that are capable of looking at the overall pattern and changing their behavior based on whether they like the pattern or not. So the most wonderful thing, I think, about this whole debate about power laws and software that could change it is the fact that we're having the conversation. I hope it continues here. Thanks a lot.
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