11 quotes found
“Memory has always been social. Now were using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.”
“Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.”
“The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.”
“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.”
“It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers ar...”
“Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing whats going on in the lives of other people what theyre thinking about, what theyre doing, what theyre looking at by paying attention to the small s...”
“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; theyre just, well, social people.”
“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 wil...”
“We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipul...”
“When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off sta...”
“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 s...”
