"Memory has always been social. Now we're using……" — Clive Thompson
"Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too."
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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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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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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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More Augment Quotes
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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part…
— Victor Hugo
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Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order…
— Francois Magendie
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Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own…
— Sun Tzu
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Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit…
— Aldo Leopold
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If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of…
— Unknown Author
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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If…
— Cyrus the Great
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The Internet of things will augment your brain.
— Eric Schmidt
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The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When…
— Matt Chandler
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If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and…
— Earl Nightingale
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The concept of an independent spiritual realm does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to…
— Ursula Goodenough
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Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment…
— David Ricardo
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