full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But then what I realized when I went to college is that technology doesn't just get adopted because it works. It gets adopted because people use it and it's made for humans. So I started stiydung anthropology. And when I was writing my thesis on cell phones, I realized that everyone was carrying around wormholes in their pockets. They weren't physically transporting themselves; they were mlleanty tasotnrinrpg themselves. They would cilck on a button, and they would be connected as A to B immediately. And I thought, "Oh, wow. I found it. This is great."

Open Cloze

But then what I realized when I went to college is that technology doesn't just get adopted because it works. It gets adopted because people use it and it's made for humans. So I started ________ anthropology. And when I was writing my thesis on cell phones, I realized that everyone was carrying around wormholes in their pockets. They weren't physically transporting themselves; they were ________ ____________ themselves. They would _____ on a button, and they would be connected as A to B immediately. And I thought, "Oh, wow. I found it. This is great."

Solution

  1. click
  2. mentally
  3. studying
  4. transporting

Original Text

But then what I realized when I went to college is that technology doesn't just get adopted because it works. It gets adopted because people use it and it's made for humans. So I started studying anthropology. And when I was writing my thesis on cell phones, I realized that everyone was carrying around wormholes in their pockets. They weren't physically transporting themselves; they were mentally transporting themselves. They would click on a button, and they would be connected as A to B immediately. And I thought, "Oh, wow. I found it. This is great."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
traditional anthropology 2
shortest distance 2
panic architecture 2

Important Words

  1. adopted
  2. anthropology
  3. button
  4. carrying
  5. cell
  6. click
  7. college
  8. connected
  9. great
  10. humans
  11. immediately
  12. mentally
  13. people
  14. phones
  15. physically
  16. pockets
  17. realized
  18. started
  19. studying
  20. technology
  21. thesis
  22. thought
  23. transporting
  24. works
  25. wormholes
  26. wow
  27. writing