The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result. — Clive Thompson Collaborate Copy Share Image
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to… — Clive Thompson About Copy Share Image
When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the… — Clive Thompson About Copy Share Image
Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.' — Clive Thompson Addictive Copy Share Image
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix… — Clive Thompson Any Copy Share Image
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson Book Copy Share Image
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light,… — Clive Thompson Absolutely Copy Share Image
“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other… — Clive Thompson Books Copy Share Image
The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we… — Clive Thompson About Copy Share Image
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is… — Clive Thompson Ability Copy Share Image
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil. — Clive Thompson Inspirational Copy Share Image
I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply… — Clive Thompson Any Copy Share Image
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 Actually Copy Share Image
Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak,… — Clive Thompson Best Copy Share Image
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented. — Clive Thompson Amount Copy Share Image
The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at… — Clive Thompson About Copy Share Image
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in… — Clive Thompson Animal Copy Share Image
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also… — Clive Thompson Active Copy Share Image
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's… — Clive Thompson Any Copy Share Image
“Microsoft is still living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very… — Clive Thompson Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always… — Clive Thompson Always Copy Share Image
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique,… — Clive Thompson Cheap Copy Share Image
We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines. — Clive Thompson Around Copy Share Image
America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro. — Clive Thompson About Copy Share Image
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what… — Clive Thompson Able Copy Share Image
