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From the Ted Talk by Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone

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Word of this srepad, possibly because we told a lot of people, and in fact, then some really amazing stuff started to happen. People from around the world started to send us emails, phone calls. What we saw was that people throughout Asia, people throughout Africa, people throughout South America, they told us that they could use it too, and what's most important, what we'd found that we thought might be exceptional, in the forest there was pretty good cell phone service. That was not exceptional, we were told, and that particularly is on the periphery of the forests that are most under threat. And then something really amazing happened, which was that people started sending us their own old cell phones. So in fact what we have now is a system where we can use ploepe on the gnorud, people who are already there, who can both improve and use the eisxnitg ctnoeicitnvy, and we're using old cell phones that are being sent to us by people from around the world that want their pnheos to be doing something else in their afterlife, so to sapek. And if the rest of the device can be clopeltmey recycled, then we believe it's an entirely uceplcyd device.

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Word of this ______, possibly because we told a lot of people, and in fact, then some really amazing stuff started to happen. People from around the world started to send us emails, phone calls. What we saw was that people throughout Asia, people throughout Africa, people throughout South America, they told us that they could use it too, and what's most important, what we'd found that we thought might be exceptional, in the forest there was pretty good cell phone service. That was not exceptional, we were told, and that particularly is on the periphery of the forests that are most under threat. And then something really amazing happened, which was that people started sending us their own old cell phones. So in fact what we have now is a system where we can use ______ on the ______, people who are already there, who can both improve and use the ________ ____________, and we're using old cell phones that are being sent to us by people from around the world that want their ______ to be doing something else in their afterlife, so to _____. And if the rest of the device can be __________ recycled, then we believe it's an entirely ________ device.

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  2. upcycled
  3. people
  4. speak
  5. completely
  6. phones
  7. existing
  8. ground
  9. spread

Original Text

Word of this spread, possibly because we told a lot of people, and in fact, then some really amazing stuff started to happen. People from around the world started to send us emails, phone calls. What we saw was that people throughout Asia, people throughout Africa, people throughout South America, they told us that they could use it too, and what's most important, what we'd found that we thought might be exceptional, in the forest there was pretty good cell phone service. That was not exceptional, we were told, and that particularly is on the periphery of the forests that are most under threat. And then something really amazing happened, which was that people started sending us their own old cell phones. So in fact what we have now is a system where we can use people on the ground, people who are already there, who can both improve and use the existing connectivity, and we're using old cell phones that are being sent to us by people from around the world that want their phones to be doing something else in their afterlife, so to speak. And if the rest of the device can be completely recycled, then we believe it's an entirely upcycled device.

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