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 cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV. — 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 for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a… — 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
