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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Answer Correct Downward Exponentially Follows Forget Forgetting Fortunately Getting Graph Human Levels Likelihood Off Our Over Pattern Quickly Quiz Then Time

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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

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Topics: After Age Call Create Dream Fantasy Founded Great Information Information Age Knowledge Library Might You

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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Actions Also Crisis Delivered Depend Disaster Effective Enough Get Hopelessly Human Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Informal Katrina Large Like Must Networks Overcome Pause Series Tendency Them Trigger Truth Truth Is Warnings Work

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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Ability Attacks Decentralized Depends Earthquakes Execution Explicit Hurricanes National Obedience Plans Respond Safety Scheme Security Terrorist Then Useless

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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Act Better Center Compass Consciousness Effectively Get Just Know Moral Moral Compass More Operation Our Ourselves Self Want World

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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Convince Could Dates Details Facts Forgetting Formulas Historical Important Internet Learn Looked Matter Might Much Only Ourselves Perhaps Problem Really Remembering Things Torment Up Us Words

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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

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Topics: Big Data New Oil People Saying

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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Apple Been Both First First Time Got Jobs Macintosh Next Right Ruled Second Steve Steve Jobs Still Time Times Twice

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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Best Boom Designers Editors Future Group Hope January Launch Media Small Small Group Story Tech Technology Who Wired Would Yesterday

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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Analysis Authority Busy Buzz Ceaseless Cliche Create Decentralized Empowered Familiar Grass Internet Intersection Leadership Political Rhetorical Roots Theory Vehicles Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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