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From the Ted Talk by Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth

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But I'm now going to give you an experiment. You have to choose either option A or option B. (Laughter) Option A is you get to keep everything ieevntnd up till 10 years ago. So you get Google, you get aazmon, you get wikeiipda, and you get running water and indoor toilets. Or you get everything invented to yesterday, including Facebook and your iPhone, but you have to give up, go out to the outhouse, and carry in the water. haurcirne snady csuead a lot of people to lose the 20th century, maybe for a couple of days, in some cesas for more than a week, electricity, running water, heating, gasoline for their cars, and a charge for their iPhones.

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But I'm now going to give you an experiment. You have to choose either option A or option B. (Laughter) Option A is you get to keep everything ________ up till 10 years ago. So you get Google, you get ______, you get _________, and you get running water and indoor toilets. Or you get everything invented to yesterday, including Facebook and your iPhone, but you have to give up, go out to the outhouse, and carry in the water. _________ _____ ______ a lot of people to lose the 20th century, maybe for a couple of days, in some _____ for more than a week, electricity, running water, heating, gasoline for their cars, and a charge for their iPhones.

Solution

  1. amazon
  2. caused
  3. sandy
  4. hurricane
  5. invented
  6. cases
  7. wikipedia

Original Text

But I'm now going to give you an experiment. You have to choose either option A or option B. (Laughter) Option A is you get to keep everything invented up till 10 years ago. So you get Google, you get Amazon, you get Wikipedia, and you get running water and indoor toilets. Or you get everything invented to yesterday, including Facebook and your iPhone, but you have to give up, go out to the outhouse, and carry in the water. Hurricane Sandy caused a lot of people to lose the 20th century, maybe for a couple of days, in some cases for more than a week, electricity, running water, heating, gasoline for their cars, and a charge for their iPhones.

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