Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology. — Gary Wolf Copy Share
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories.… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience,… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. — Gary Wolf Copy Share
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as… — Gary Wolf Copy Share
