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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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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix…
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