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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Amend by Clive Thompson
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"Blogging forces you to write down your arguments and assumptions. This is the single biggest reason to do it, and I think information technology alone makes it worth it. You accept a lot of opinions. I'm certain some of them you hold strongly. Pick 1 and write it up in a post—I'm certain your opinion will change somewhat, or at least become more nuanced. When yous move from your head to "newspaper," a lot of the hand-waveyness goes away and you are left to actually defend your position to yourself."
― The Penguin Press, Smarter Than Yous Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

"Today we have something that works in the aforementioned way, but for everyday people: the Net, which encourages public thinking and resolves multiples on a much larger scale and at a pace more than dementedly rapid. It'south now the earth's about powerful engine for putting heads together. Failed networks kill ideas, only successful ones trigger them."
― The Penguin Press, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Ameliorate

"Professional writers have long described the fashion that the act of writing forces them to distill their vague notions into articulate ideas. Past putting one-half-formed thoughts on the folio, we externalize them and are able to evaluate them much more objectively. This is why writers often find that information technology's merely when they start writing that they effigy out what they want to say."
― Clive Thompson, Smarter Than Yous Think: How Technology is Irresolute Our Minds for the Ameliorate

"PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of information visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging information literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones practice the contrary. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations."
― Thompson, Clive, Smarter Than Yous Call up: How Engineering science is Changing Our Minds for the Meliorate

"Why would the aforementioned ideas occur to different people at the same time? Ogburn and Thomas argued that it was considering our ideas are, in a crucial manner, partly products of our surround. They're "inevitable." When they're gear up to emerge, they exercise. This is because we, the folks coming upwardly with the ideas, do non work in a sealed-off, Rodin's Thinker fashion."
― The Penguin Press, Smarter Than Yous Think: How Engineering is Changing Our Minds for the Meliorate

"Microsoft is withal living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very loosely - that would observe people'due south behavior as they worked on a document and try to bosom in, offering 'advice' that tended to be spectacularly useless"
― Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Retrieve: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

"Consider these electric current rough estimates: Each day, we etch 154 billion due east-mails, more than 500 million tweets on Twitter, and over ane million blog posts and i.three million blog comments on WordPress solitary. On Facebook, we write about 16 billion words per day. That'south just in the United states:"
― Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Irresolute Our Minds for the Meliorate

"Indeed, every bit a machinery for finding knowledge, weak-link networks occupy a cognitive role usefully different from, say, search engines. While Google is useful at chop-chop answering a specific factual question, networks of people are meliorate at fuzzy, "any-idea-how-to-deal-with-this?" dilemmas that occupy everyday life."
― Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You lot Call up: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

"In 1934, he wrote an essay envisioning a great compendium of electronic documents that could be accessed via a figurer in your household: a reseau, or "web." "Here, the workspace is no longer cluttered with whatsoever books. In their place, a screen and a telephone within attain," Otlet wrote. "Over in that location, in an immense building, are all the books and information. From there, the page to be read . . . is fabricated to appear on the screen. The screen could be divided in one-half, past 4, or even by ten, if multiple texts and documents had to be consulted simultaneously."
― Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Think: How Applied science is Changing Our Minds for the Better

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