PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in o…

- 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…

- 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…

- Clive Thompson

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

- 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, …

- 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…

- Clive Thompson

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

- Clive Thompson

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

- 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