Quotes by : Clive Thompson

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world,....

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and....

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only....

The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into....

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what’s going on in the lives of other people — what....

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active....

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open....

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall....

Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories,....