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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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Data
Oil
Saying
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Ancient
Proven
Inspires
Medium
Physical
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The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.
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Affected
Causes
Psychology
Hidden
Mental
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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Experiments
Humans
Mice
Replete
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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Promise
Accessible
Great World Internet
Useful
Universally
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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Cooperation
Totally
Scale
Gigantic
Mostly
Resistant
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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.
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Advice
Grows
Openness
Follows
None
Web
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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.
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Macintosh
Twice
Apple
Time First Time Right
Ruled
Steve
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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.
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Compass
Consciousness
Moral
Moral Compass
World Better More
World Better Know
Center
Effectively
Operation
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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 founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Knowledge
Fantasy
Information
Information Age
Library
Founded
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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.
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Technology
Editors
January
Media
Yesterday
Best Future Hope
Boom
Designers
Group
Launch
Tech
Small Group
Wired
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Forget
Levels
Likelihood
Quiz
Answer
Correct
Downward
Exponentially
Follows
Forgetting
Fortunately
Graph
Pattern
Quickly
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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. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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Attention
Blind
Gaps
Humans
Judgment
Simplest
Spots
Vision
Stream
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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.
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Buyers
Categories
Checks
Credit
Credit Card
Fake
Numbers
Sellers
Share
Spam
Artists
Nearly
Card
Con
Entire
Paying
Rendered
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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.
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Contradictory
Precise
Rapport
Skills
Balancing
Establish
Operator
Seemingly
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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Behavior
Expertise
Human Behavior
Opaque
Unfathomable
Figuring
Painfully
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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Leadership
Analysis
Authority
Busy
Buzz
Cliche
Empowered
Familiar
Grass
Rhetorical
Roots
Theory
Ceaseless
Decentralized
Grass Roots
Intersection
Vehicles
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If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
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Depends
Drills
Earthquakes
Execution
Explicit
Hurricanes
Obedience
Plans
Safety
Showy
Terrorist
Useless
Attacks
Respond
Decentralized
Scheme
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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.
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Attention
Massive
Viewers
Cable
Compete
Networks
Number
Major
Limited
Necessarily
Tail
Web
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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.
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Computers
Science
Machines
Science Fiction
Ask
Assumed
Fan
Memory
Practical
Supplemented
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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.
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Definite
Genes
Life Experience
Mice
Traits
Arising
Complex
Phenomena
Fooling
Interactions
Mutations
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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.
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Forget
Forgotten
Insight
Late
Practice
Right Time
Too Late
Waste
Time Moment Your
Based
Ideal
Material
Soon
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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
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Dark
Google
Information
Internet
Library
Promise
Seems
Universe
Accessible
Books
Hand
Region
Remained
Revived
Web
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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.
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Convince
Details
Formulas
Historical
Torment
Dates
Forgetting
Remembering
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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.
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Discovery
Fixing
Genome
Cure
Gene
Latest
Link
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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
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Crisis
Disaster
Hurricane Katrina
Truth Is
Actions
Overcome
Networks
Delivered
Depend
Effective
Hopelessly
Hurricane
Informal
Pause
Tendency
Trigger
Warnings
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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.
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Alluring
Calories
Familiar
Meaningful
Millions
Sensors
Track
Weight
Scale
Automatically
Count
Enhanced
Monitor
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