Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers,… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is… — 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 Image
The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
