Listen to the TED speech, and fill in the blanks with what you hear. A third paradox is that speed begets speed. The faster I (1) , the more responses I get, the faster I have to respond again. Having more communication and information at our fingertips at any given moment was supposed to make (2) easier and more rational. But that doesn't really seem to be happening. Here's just one more paradox: If all of these faster technologies were supposed to (3) us from drudgery, why do we all feel so pressed for time? Why are we crashing our cars in record numbers, because we think we have to answer that text right away? Shouldn't life in the (4) feel a little more fun and a little less anxious? German speakers even have a word for this: "Eilkrankheit." In English, that's "hurry (5)." When we have to make fast decisions, autopilot brain kicks in, and we (6) our learned behaviors, our reflexes, our cognitive biases, to help us (7) and respond quickly. Sometimes that saves our lives, right? Fight or flight. But sometimes, it leads us astray in the long run. Oftentimes, when our society has (8), they're not technological failures. They're failures that happen when we made decisions too quickly on autopilot. We didn't do the creative or (9) required to connect the dots or weed out false information or make sense of complexity. That kind of thinking can't be done fast. That's slow thinking. Two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, started pointing this out back in 1974, and we're still (10) to do something with their insights. All of modern history can be thought of as one spurt of acceleration after another. It's as if we think if we just (11) enough, we can outrun our problems. But we never do. We know this in our own lives, and policymakers know it, too. So now we're turning to (12) to help us make faster and smarter decisions to process this ever-expanding universe of data.