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Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

~Clive Thompson

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Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Ads Advertising All Day Business Come Day Develop Doing Firm Get Goal Interrupt Long Love Media Models More Much People Personally Possible See Selling Service Social Social Media Stare You Your

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The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Absolutely Become Effects Electric Fire How Interwoven Light Notice Old Older Only Our Paper Pencils Penicillin Processes Reason Technologies Thinking

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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

~Clive Thompson

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There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.

~Clive Thompson

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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. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Almost Along Always Been Before Brains Came Computer Details Else Find Help Internet Like Need Our People Problem Remember Remembering Someone Something Syndrome Terrible Them Way Were

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The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

~Clive Thompson

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The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'

~Clive Thompson

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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

~Clive Thompson

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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.

~Clive Thompson

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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