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From the Ted Talk by Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

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And that's how GPS was born. Thirty years later, Ronald rgeaan, actually, opened it up and made it an open platform that anybody could build upon, and anybody could come along and build new technology that would create and innovate on top of this open platform, left it open for anyone to do pretty much anything they wanted with it. And now, I guarantee you, certainly half of this room, if not more, has a divcee sitting in their pecokt right now that is talking to one of these satellites in outer sapce. And I bet you one of you, if not more, has used said device and said stailltee system to locate a nearby coffeehouse somewhere in the last —

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And that's how GPS was born. Thirty years later, Ronald ______, actually, opened it up and made it an open platform that anybody could build upon, and anybody could come along and build new technology that would create and innovate on top of this open platform, left it open for anyone to do pretty much anything they wanted with it. And now, I guarantee you, certainly half of this room, if not more, has a ______ sitting in their ______ right now that is talking to one of these satellites in outer _____. And I bet you one of you, if not more, has used said device and said _________ system to locate a nearby coffeehouse somewhere in the last —

Solution

  1. satellite
  2. space
  3. reagan
  4. device
  5. pocket

Original Text

And that's how GPS was born. Thirty years later, Ronald Reagan, actually, opened it up and made it an open platform that anybody could build upon, and anybody could come along and build new technology that would create and innovate on top of this open platform, left it open for anyone to do pretty much anything they wanted with it. And now, I guarantee you, certainly half of this room, if not more, has a device sitting in their pocket right now that is talking to one of these satellites in outer space. And I bet you one of you, if not more, has used said device and said satellite system to locate a nearby coffeehouse somewhere in the last —

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