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From the Ted Talk by Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?

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So the green shoots are out there. I don't want to pretend for a minute that what we have is going to be enough. We're facing very tough challenges. To give just one example, there are about five million Americans who have been unmelyoepd for at least six months. We're not going to fix things for them by sending them back to Montessori. And my biggest wrroy is that we're creating a wlrod where we're going to have glittering tinehgoecols embedded in kind of a shabby sitecoy and supported by an economy that generates inequality instead of opportunity.

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So the green shoots are out there. I don't want to pretend for a minute that what we have is going to be enough. We're facing very tough challenges. To give just one example, there are about five million Americans who have been __________ for at least six months. We're not going to fix things for them by sending them back to Montessori. And my biggest _____ is that we're creating a _____ where we're going to have glittering ____________ embedded in kind of a shabby _______ and supported by an economy that generates inequality instead of opportunity.

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  1. worry
  2. world
  3. society
  4. unemployed
  5. technologies

Original Text

So the green shoots are out there. I don't want to pretend for a minute that what we have is going to be enough. We're facing very tough challenges. To give just one example, there are about five million Americans who have been unemployed for at least six months. We're not going to fix things for them by sending them back to Montessori. And my biggest worry is that we're creating a world where we're going to have glittering technologies embedded in kind of a shabby society and supported by an economy that generates inequality instead of opportunity.

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