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Gary Wolf

American Journalist

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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for. Gary Wolf

Problem Words Matter Internet Important Ourselves Torment Details Only Dates Could Facts Remembering Perhaps Looked Learn Historical Up Forgetting Formulas Might Us Much Really Convince Things

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene. Gary Wolf

Cause Long Think Latest Though About Gene Between Terms Genome Read Learned Still Discovery Link Cure Fixing Get Disease May Often Social Even Imagine

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.' Gary Wolf

Saying People Big Data New Oil

Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful. Gary Wolf

Time Balance Behavior Our Scale Ourselves Record More Both Count Weight Step Alluring Track Becomes Calories Methods Familiar Automatically Process Sensors Meaningful Us Enhanced Monitor Millions

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 both times. Gary Wolf

Time First Ruled Macintosh Has-Been Jobs Both Steve Steve Jobs First Time Got Still Been Times Next Twice Apple Right Second

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 media, the tech boom was yesterday's story. Gary Wolf

Hope Future Best Technology Yesterday Group Boom Launch Would Small Small Group Wired Editors Story January Who Media Tech Designers

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget. Gary Wolf

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. Gary Wolf

Science Memory Intelligence Assumed Our Machines Would Would-Be Some Give Supplemented Computers Had Practical Supremely Because Science Fiction Always Questions Fiction Fan Them Ask

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. Gary Wolf

Great World Internet Promise Make Accessible Information Useful Universally

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free. Gary Wolf

Business Free Scale Gigantic Totally Only Also Mostly Cooperation Resistant

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers. Gary Wolf

Sometimes Entire Share Con Categories Checks Rendered Fake Sellers Artists Spam Paying Credit Card Credit Card Nearly Buyers Numbers

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. Gary Wolf

History Failures Mice Replete The History Of Experiments Stand Using Medical Humans

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience. Gary Wolf

Life Experience Our Extremely Complex Definite Mutations Life Experience Fooling Arising Environment Between Genes Around Mice Traits Taught Interactions Interest Us Products Many Specific Phenomena

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV. Gary Wolf

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers. Gary Wolf

Other Must Rapport Able Seemingly Balancing Operator Hand Contradictory Precise Establish Being Means Skills

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology. Gary Wolf

Life Our Hidden Mental Idea Causes Affected Psychology

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 know ourselves better. Gary Wolf

World Better Our Ourselves Moral Moral Compass More Self Know Operation Effectively Get Just Want Center Act Compass Consciousness

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