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Product Description: How technology boosts our cognitive abilitiesâmaking us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeItâs undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson votes yes...read more
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9781480535299, titled "Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better: Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 12, 2013), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: How technology boosts our cognitive abilitiesâmaking us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeItâs undeniable: technology is changing the way we think.
9781480535282, titled "Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 12, 2013), cover price $69.97 | About this edition: How technology boosts our cognitive abilitiesâmaking us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever beforeItâs undeniable: technology is changing the way we think.
It's undeniableâtechnology 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 deeperâboth as individuals and as a society. In Smarter Than You Think Thompson shows that every technological innovationâfrom the written word to the printing press to the telegraphâhas 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 adaptâlearning to use the new and retaining whatâs 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 momentâgiving 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 decadeâand 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 toolsâfrom Google to Twitter to Facebook and smartphonesâare 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 mindâpushing them in powerful new directions. Our thinking will continue to evolve as newer tools enter our lives. Smarter Than You Think embraces and extols this transformation, presenting an exciting vision of the present and the future.
Hardcover:
9781594204456 | Penguin Pr, September 12, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: It's undeniableâtechnology is changing the way we think.
9780007427772 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 12, 2013, cover price $30.85
Paperback:
9780143125822 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 26, 2014), cover price $17.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781480535275 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 12, 2013), cover price $24.99
9781480535268 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 12, 2013), cover price $29.99
Miscellaneous:
9781405144704 | Blackwell Pub, February 24, 2009, cover price $290.00
Miscellaneous:
9780470094921 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 20, 2006, cover price $190.00
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