Clive Thompson Quotes
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
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.
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.