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Clive Thompson is a renowned blogger, born in 1968. His work spans across various domains such as technology, culture, and society, known for his unique perspective and in-depth analysis.

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“More than introversion or logic, though, coding selects for people who can handle endless frustration.”

Technology Coding

Book:Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Source: Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

“When you meet a coder, you're meeting someone whose core daily experience is of unending failure and grinding frustration.”

Technology Coding

Book:Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Source: Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

“Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.”

Social Memories Computer Engines Our Memories Search Engine

Author:Clive Thompson

“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. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives.”

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Author:Clive Thompson

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.”

Book Moments Reading Fascinating Book Reading Serendipity

Author:Clive Thompson

“Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.”

Type Pencils

Author:Clive Thompson

“As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.”

People Wells Book Social Active Online Documents Offline

Book:Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.”

People Mystery Modern Computer Tools Users

Author:Clive Thompson

“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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Author:Clive Thompson

“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.”

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Author:Clive Thompson

“That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.”

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Author:Clive Thompson

About the Author

Born: 1968
Known for: Blogger
Quotes: 12

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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the WorldRelated source material

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the BetterRelated source material

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