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From the Ted Talk by Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

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And the natural response to this is to hole up in your apartment or consider fleeing for the suburbs. It doesn't surprise me that people are giving up on the idea of online public spceas the way that they've given up on cities over their history. And sometimes — I'll be hosent — it feels to me like this whole poejrct of, like, wiring up a civilization and getting billions of poeple to come into contact with each other is just ilpbsiosme. But modern cities tell us that it is possible for millions of people who are really different, sometimes living right on top of each other, not just to not kill each other, but to actually build things together, find new experiences, create beautiful, important infrastructure. And we cannot give up on that prisome.

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And the natural response to this is to hole up in your apartment or consider fleeing for the suburbs. It doesn't surprise me that people are giving up on the idea of online public ______ the way that they've given up on cities over their history. And sometimes — I'll be ______ — it feels to me like this whole _______ of, like, wiring up a civilization and getting billions of ______ to come into contact with each other is just __________. But modern cities tell us that it is possible for millions of people who are really different, sometimes living right on top of each other, not just to not kill each other, but to actually build things together, find new experiences, create beautiful, important infrastructure. And we cannot give up on that _______.

Solution

  1. people
  2. spaces
  3. project
  4. impossible
  5. honest
  6. promise

Original Text

And the natural response to this is to hole up in your apartment or consider fleeing for the suburbs. It doesn't surprise me that people are giving up on the idea of online public spaces the way that they've given up on cities over their history. And sometimes — I'll be honest — it feels to me like this whole project of, like, wiring up a civilization and getting billions of people to come into contact with each other is just impossible. But modern cities tell us that it is possible for millions of people who are really different, sometimes living right on top of each other, not just to not kill each other, but to actually build things together, find new experiences, create beautiful, important infrastructure. And we cannot give up on that promise.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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