Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the… — Gary Wolf About Copy Share Image
The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology. — Gary Wolf Affected Copy Share Image
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. — Gary Wolf Ancient 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… — Gary Wolf About 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… — Gary Wolf About 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… — Gary Wolf Alluring 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… — Gary Wolf Act 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… — Gary Wolf Able 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,… — Gary Wolf After Copy Share Image
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on… — Gary Wolf Ability Copy Share Image
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. — Gary Wolf Accessible 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… — Gary Wolf Accessible Copy Share Image
The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the… — Gary Wolf Convince Copy Share Image
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 Attention Copy Share Image
To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but… — Gary Wolf Best 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 Actions Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT… — Gary Wolf Apple Copy Share Image
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent… — Gary Wolf Analysis Copy Share Image
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. — Gary Wolf Experiments Copy Share Image
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are… — Gary Wolf Arising Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some… — Gary Wolf Always 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 Answer Copy Share Image
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks… — Gary Wolf Art Copy Share Image
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and… — Gary Wolf Answer Copy Share Image
