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The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity. -- Clive Thompson
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The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design. -- Clive Thompson
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Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible. -- Clive Thompson
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If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works. -- Clive Thompson
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Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil. -- Clive Thompson
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The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!' -- Clive Thompson
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Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines. -- Clive Thompson
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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, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death. -- Clive Thompson
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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines. -- Clive Thompson
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Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.' -- Clive Thompson
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When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday. -- Clive Thompson
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I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself. -- Clive Thompson
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us. -- Clive Thompson
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Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion. -- Clive Thompson
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Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective. -- Clive Thompson
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social. -- Clive Thompson
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The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result. -- Clive Thompson
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There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person. -- Clive Thompson
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The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology. -- Clive Thompson
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A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't. -- Clive Thompson
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The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling. -- Clive Thompson
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We're social creatures, so we think socially. -- Clive Thompson
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A newspaper runs a story, a friend posts a link on Facebook, a blogger writes a post, and it's interesting. But the real intellectual action often takes place in the comments. -- Clive Thompson
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Consider these current rough estimates: Each day, we compose 154 billion e-mails, more than 500 million tweets on Twitter, and over 1 million blog posts and 1.3 million blog comments on WordPress alone. On Facebook, we write about 16 billion words per day. That's just in the United States: -- Clive Thompson
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Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on. -- Clive Thompson
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially. -- Clive Thompson
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As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they're just, well, social people. -- Clive Thompson
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Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along. -- Clive Thompson
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The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls. -- Clive Thompson
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There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years. -- Clive Thompson
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Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors. -- Clive Thompson
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America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro. -- Clive Thompson
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Hobbesian individualism; -- Clive Thompson
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Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too. -- Clive Thompson
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When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. -- Clive Thompson
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Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming. -- Clive Thompson
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Microsoft is still living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very loosely - that would observe people's behavior as they worked on a document and try to bust in, offering 'advice' that tended to be spectacularly useless -- Clive Thompson
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The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things. -- Clive Thompson
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Before the Internet came along, most people rarely wrote anything at all for pleasure or intellectual satisfaction after graduating from high school or college. -- Clive Thompson
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While reading Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on "popular highlights" to see what passages other readers had found interesting - and wound up becoming fascinated by a section on chess strategy I'd only lightly skimmed myself. -- Clive Thompson
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Our minds are drawn to what feels true, not what's necessarily so. -- Clive Thompson
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Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. -- Clive Thompson
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But studies have found that particularly when it comes to analytic or critical thought, the effort of communicating to someone else forces you to think more precisely, make deeper connections, and learn more. -- Clive Thompson
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The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. -- Clive Thompson
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No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer. -- Clive Thompson
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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds. -- Clive Thompson
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Generating text yourself requires more cognitive effort than does reading, and effort increases memorability, -- Clive Thompson
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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. -- Clive Thompson
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Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity. -- Clive Thompson
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Writing about things has other salutary cognitive effects. For one, it improves your memory: write about something and you'll remember it better, in what's known as the generation effect. -- Clive Thompson
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented. -- Clive Thompson