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Smarter Than You Think - How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Paperback)
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Smarter Than You Think - How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Paperback)
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A brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly
changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, 'Wired'
writer Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our
brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more
not less intelligent as is so often claimed. Our lives have been
changed utterly and irrevocably by the rise of the internet and it
is only now that we can begin to analyse this extraordinary
phenomenon. The author argues that as we rely more and more for
machines to help us think, our thinking itself is becoming richer
and more complex. We're able to learn more, retain it longer, to
write in curious new forms, and even to think entirely new types of
thoughts. Outsmart is filled with stories of people who are living
through these profound technological changes. In a series of
postcards from the near future, we meet characters such as Gordon
Bell, an ageing millionaire who is saving a digital copy of
everything that happens to him, and Eric Hovitz, one of the world's
leading artificial-intelligence researchers, who is creating
software that is designed to let your computer sense your mood and
then predict when you're going to be most productive at work.
Lucidly written and argued, 'Smarter Than You Think' is a
breathtaking original look at our Brave New World.
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