Clive Thompson is a contributor for the New York Times Magazineand Wired. He also writes for Fast Company and appears regularly on many NPR programs, CNN, Fox News, and NY1, among other news outlets. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
“Powerful and rigorously thought out … Smarter Than You Think is
excellent and necessary in its entirety, covering everything from
the promise of artificial intelligence to how technology is
changing our ambient awareness.”
— Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“[A] lucid and distinctly hopeful study of the ways in which modern
tools are changing how we read, think, write, and act.” — The New
Yorker
“A well-framed celebration of how the digital world will make us
bigger, rather than diminish us.”
— Kirkus
“[A] judicious and insightful book on machine intelligence.” —
Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review
“[An] entertaining and well-researched celebration of modern
communication.” —O Magazine
"We should be grateful to have such a clear-eyed and lucid
interpreter of our changing technological culture as Clive
Thompson. Smarter Than You Think is an important, insightful book
about who we are, and who we are becoming."
—Joshua Foer, New York Times bestselling author of Moonwalking with
Einstein
"Almost without noticing it, the Internet has become our
intellectual exoskeleton. Rather than just observing this
evolution, Clive Thompson takes us to the people, places and
technologies driving it, bringing deep reporting, storytelling and
analysis to one of the most profound shifts in human history."
—Chris Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Makers, Free,
and The Long Tail
"There's good news in this dazzling book: Technology is not the
enemy. Smarter Than You Think reports on how the digital
world has helped individuals harness a powerful, collaborative
intelligence—becoming better problem-solvers and more creative
human beings."
—Jane McGonigal, PhD, Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make
Us Better and How They Can Change the World
"Thompson declares a winner in the cognitive fight between human
and computers: both together. Smarter Than You Think is an
eye-opening exploration of the ways computers think better with
humans attached, and vice-versa."
—Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive
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