Best quotes by Clive Thompson on People

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• ‟ The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.

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• ‟ Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

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• ‟ I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

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• ‟ The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

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• ‟ There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.

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• ‟ We're dumber and less cognitively nimble if we're not around other people - and, now, other machines.

  - Clive Thompson