Clive Thompson Quotes

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

  Clive Thompson

  Memories, Computer, Social

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• La conciencia ambiental es la experiencia de saber lo que ocurre en la vida de otras personas -en qué piensan, qué hacen, qué miran- prestando atención a los pequeños mensajes de estado que la gente pone en Internet. Ahora somos capaces de unir estos fantásticos detalles y mapas mentales de lo que ocurre en la vida de otras personas.

  Clive Thompson

  Pensar, Saber, Personas

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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

  Powerful, Thinking, Talking

  "Interview: Clive Thompson's 'Smarter Than You Think'". Interview with Michael Agger, www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2013.

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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

  Book, People, Online

  Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.127, Penguin

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• PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

  Clive Thompson

  Thinking, Opposites, Data

  Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

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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

  Personas, herramientas, informática

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

  Clive Thompson

  Type, Pencils

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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

  Character, World, Way

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

  Clive Thompson

  Book, Reading, Serendipity

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• Es el viejo cuento ecológico que explica la incapacidad de los humanos para apreciar plenamente el calentamiento global. Por ejemplo: si metes una rana en una olla con agua caliente, salta. Si la metes en un recipiente con agua fría y subes el fuego lentamente, puede morir asada.

  Clive Thompson

  Funny, Animal, Appreciate

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