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We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Consult Documents Down Fashion Giving Impossible Knowledge Manipulate Material Minds Our Paper Pencils Recall Scratch Store Type Us Use

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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 about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: About Attention Awareness Doing Experience Going Knowing Lives Looking Messages Online Other Paying People Putting Small Status Stray Thinking

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The things kids can do on screens can be really delightful - if they are age appropriate. But no, they shouldn't spend all their time on a screen; they should split up their time doing multiple, different things.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Age Appropriate Delightful Different Different Things Doing Kids Multiple Really Screen Screens Should Spend Split Things Time Up

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The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: About Argue Attempt Begun Found Interesting Learn Look Main Message New Other Over People Smarter Technology Than Think Use Ways World You

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The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Always Answering Being Conversations Down Engaging Get Helpful Most Other Out People Productive Questions Social Talking Tend Themselves Thinkers Who

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There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Bust Case Database Five Government Just Loud Maybe Nothing Out Public Something Sucking Talking Those Up Utter Want Wrong Years You

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When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: About Baseball Birthday Easily Expert Fans Favorite New Off Only Out Own Passionate Players Retain Space Subject Subjects Then Though Topic Truly Works You Your

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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: About Because End Glory Job Love Mind Most Natural Novelists Particular Remember Requires Rest Room Sit Socially Solitary Them Themselves Think Us Years

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Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Best Biases Close Digital Engines Harder How Judge Lie Me Memory Minds Particularly Partners People Search Search Engines Sense Strong Tools Weak Where Work Works You Your I Can

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We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

~Clive Thompson

Topics: Around Dumber Less Machines Nimble Now Other People

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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