Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143125822)

A revelatory and timely look at how technology boosts our cognitive abilities--making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever

It's undeniable--technology 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 innovation--from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph--has 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 adapt--learning to use the new and retaining what is good of the old. Smarter Than You Think embraces and extols this transformation, presenting an exciting vision of the present and the future.

Author: Clive Thompson
ISBN-10: 0143125826
ISBN-13: 9780143125822
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/07/2014 pg. 28