More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially acti… - Clive Thompson
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially acti…
- Clive Thompson
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil. - Clive Thompson
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, … - Clive Thompson
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, …
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relyi… - Clive Thompson
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relyi…
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in o… - Clive Thompson
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in o…
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what t… - Clive Thompson
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what t…
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. I… - Clive Thompson
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. I…
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too. - Clive Thompson
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. - Clive Thompson
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
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