"As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in……" — Clive Thompson
"As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people."
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Clive Thompson
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19 Quotes by Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking…
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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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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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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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