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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…
• Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
• Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what…
• PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…
• When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
• Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
• As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also…
• A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing…
• We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with…
• The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
• There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is…
• 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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