Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, Library Edition

from CaroPi

This is a very interesting book. It show us how technology does not make us as stupid as we believe it does, but what allow us to do is to interact in a very different way that we did before, it allow us to create things in a different way and to work in a new, and many times more effective manne...

from greeniezona

I don't really remember where or why I acquired this book, but it's been on my shelves for a bit. The sort of a book that clearly has an agenda, so it's not looking for arguments against its thesis -- but as our society is currently swamped with the opposite message -- that smartphones are ruinin...

from Anasurimbor

Clive Thompson's Smarter Than You Think is a refreshing approach to the proliferation of modern technology. Many writers and thinkers are quick to point out the inherent dangers and trials of each new technology, with positive applications treated as interesting but presumed to be already known t...

from grandpahobo

The author illustrates how the advent of digital technology and the internet have impacted communication on many different levels. He provides a very diverse set of examples, from the Arab Spring to elementary school classrooms.The author does an excellent job of describing the nature of interper...

from eugene17

Another writer reporting on a hodge podge of things based on a central premise. If you work or are even just a bit up to date about the internet world, this book will really disappoint you. A bunch of correlations were made so that it will fit the central premise but not evidence for me. Maybe I'...