Smarter Than You Think How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Name: Smarter Than You Think How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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ISBN: 9780143125822

ISBN-10: 0143125826

ISBN-13: 9780143125822

Edition: N/A

Authors: Clive Thompson

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A revelatory and timely look at how technology boosts our cognitive abilitiesmaking us smarter, more productive, and more creative than everIt’s undeniabletechnology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding yes.” In Smarter Than You Think, Thompson shows that every technological innovationfrom the written word to the printing press to the telegraphhas provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But, as in the past, we adaptlearning to use the new and retaining what is good of the old.…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/26/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.34" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English