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From the Ted Talk by Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games

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But behind the scenes in an olnnie game, this is what it looks like. To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful etniiets or objects. You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite wlrod." Well it's more that you've played on a taidermll. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the ruovtioeln that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.

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But behind the scenes in an ______ game, this is what it looks like. To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful ________ or objects. You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite _____." Well it's more that you've played on a _________. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the __________ that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.

Solution

  1. online
  2. world
  3. treadmill
  4. revolution
  5. entities

Original Text

But behind the scenes in an online game, this is what it looks like. To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful entities or objects. You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite world." Well it's more that you've played on a treadmill. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the revolution that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.

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Important Words

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  29. vanish
  30. walking
  31. world