Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better - Couverture souple

Thompson, Clive

 
9780007427796: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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ISBN 10 : 0007427794 ISBN 13 : 9780007427796
Editeur : William Collins, 2014

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Clive Thompson is one of the most prominent thinkers on technology and its impact on daily life. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Wired magazine. This is his first book.

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Éditeur
William Collins
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0007427794
ISBN 13 
9780007427796
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1594204454 ISBN 13 :  9781594204456
Editeur : Penguin Press, 2013
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