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  title info:
    title: Smarter than you think
    sub title: how technology is changing our minds for the better
  title info:
    title: How technology is changing our minds for the better
  name:
    name part: Thompson, Clive
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 341 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "It's undeniable-technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis. We learn more and retain it longer, write and think with global audiences, and even gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter, better connected, and often deeper-both as individuals and as a society. In Smarter Than You Think Thompson shows that every technological innovation-from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph-has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt-learning to use the new and retaining what's good of the old. Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their minds in inventive ways. There's the seventy-six-year old millionaire who digitally records his every waking moment-giving him instant recall of the events and ideas of his life, even going back decades. There's a group of courageous Chinese students who mounted an online movement that shut down a $1.6 billion toxic copper plant. There are experts and there are amateurs, including a global set of gamers who took a puzzle that had baffled HIV scientists for a decade-and solved it collaboratively in only one month. Smarter Than You Think isn't just about pioneers. It's about everyday users of technology and how our digital tools-from Google to Twitter to Facebook and smartphones-are giving us new ways to learn, talk, and share our ideas. Thompson harnesses the latest discoveries in social science to explore how digital technology taps into our long-standing habits of mind-pushing them in powerful new directions. Our thinking will continue to evolve as newer tools enter our lives. Smarter Th…
  table of contents: The rise of the centaurs -- We, the memorious -- Public thinking -- The new literacies -- The art of finding -- The puzzle-hungry world -- Digital school -- Ambient awareness -- The connected society -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
  note: Clive Thompson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-327) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social media
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social media
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  classification: T58.5 .T498 2013
  classification: 303.48/33
  classification: SOC000000 TEC000000
  identifier: 1594204454 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781594204456 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013017155
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130802
    record change date: 20151206090054.0
    record identifier: in00003340868
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng