"That's the old ecological tale that explains humans'……" — Clive Thompson
"That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death."
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Clive Thompson
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19 Quotes by Clive Thompson
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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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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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