"Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's……" — Clive Thompson
"Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives."
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Clive Thompson
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19 Quotes by Clive Thompson
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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…
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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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PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale…
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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…
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other…
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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall…
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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…
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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.…
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires…
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