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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: Designing for simplicity

Unscramble the Blue Letters

I have 42 million hits. Let me do an Al Gore here. So, if you sort of compare that, like this, you'll see that computer versus human — I've been tnikcrag this for the last year — computer versus hmuan over the last year has changed. It used to be kind of two to one. Now, humans are catching up. Very good, us humans! We're catching up with the computers. In the simplicity rlaem, it's also interesting. So if you compare complexities to simplicity, it's also cihntcag up in a way, too. So, somehow humans and simtiiplcy are intertwined, I think.

Open Cloze

I have 42 million hits. Let me do an Al Gore here. So, if you sort of compare that, like this, you'll see that computer versus human — I've been ________ this for the last year — computer versus _____ over the last year has changed. It used to be kind of two to one. Now, humans are catching up. Very good, us humans! We're catching up with the computers. In the simplicity _____, it's also interesting. So if you compare complexities to simplicity, it's also ________ up in a way, too. So, somehow humans and __________ are intertwined, I think.

Solution

  1. realm
  2. tracking
  3. catching
  4. simplicity
  5. human

Original Text

I have 42 million hits. Let me do an Al Gore here. So, if you sort of compare that, like this, you'll see that computer versus human — I've been tracking this for the last year — computer versus human over the last year has changed. It used to be kind of two to one. Now, humans are catching up. Very good, us humans! We're catching up with the computers. In the simplicity realm, it's also interesting. So if you compare complexities to simplicity, it's also catching up in a way, too. So, somehow humans and simplicity are intertwined, I think.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. al
  2. catching
  3. changed
  4. compare
  5. complexities
  6. computer
  7. computers
  8. good
  9. gore
  10. hits
  11. human
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  13. interesting
  14. intertwined
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  17. realm
  18. simplicity
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  21. year