Clive Thompson
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Quotes by Clive Thompson
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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.
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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.
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A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
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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.
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The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
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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.
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Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.
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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!'
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