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Clive Thompson has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in…
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Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what…
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PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…
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When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
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Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
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As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also…
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing…
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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with…
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is…
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Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem…
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished,…
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It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .…
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the…
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them.…
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Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
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COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such…
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Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades…
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Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian…
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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from…
— Don DeLillo
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I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the…
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My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.
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