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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our... →
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to... →
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just... →
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention.... →
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library... →
If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly... →
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right... →
To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the... →
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