“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
“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
“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
