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“More than introversion or logic, though, coding selects for people who can handle endless frustration.” TechnologyCoding 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.” TechnologyCoding 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.” SocialMemoriesComputerEnginesOur MemoriesSearch 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.” PeopleThinkingAbleTogetherAttentionKnowingAwarenessMessagesDetailsFantasticPay AttentionOnlineMapsLives Of OthersStitchesAmbient 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.” ThinkingFirstsWellsMatterHelpingShowsEarthToolsOppositesTalesDataCorporateLiteracyPresentationEmergingMicrosoftVisualizationPowerpointCautionary Tales 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
“When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.” BookMomentsReadingFascinatingBook ReadingSerendipity 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.” PeopleWellsBookSocialActiveOnlineDocumentsOffline 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.” PeopleMysteryModernComputerToolsUsers 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.” IfsWorldWayCharacterBehindsComputerSpeedHumanitarianResumesGamerBribeDevelopersWorld Of Warcraft 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.” PeopleThinkingDoneStuffPowerfulTalkingCreativeInformationHugeAmountEverydayArguingRecalls 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.” IfsHumansFunnyTurnsWaterAnimalColdAppreciateHotWitTalesHeatGlobal WarmingInabilityFrogsEcologicalHot WaterCold Water Author:Clive Thompson