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‘Eye-opening and optimistic’ Economist, Books of the Year
‘Judicious and insightful ... Thompson avoids both the hype and the hand-wringing so common among digital age pontificators’ Walter Isaacson, New York Times
‘Almost without noticing it, the internet has become our intellectual exoskeleton. Rather than just observing this evolution, Clive Thompson takes us to the people, places and technologies driving it, bringing deep reporting, storytelling and analysis to one of the most profound shifts in human history’ Chris Anderson
‘[An] enjoyable study of the digital world ... both fascinating and thought-provoking ... [Thompson] remains admirably sober about the limits of technology’s’ edifying influence on us: technology, he reminds us, is only ever as smart as the person using it’ Sunday Times
‘Thompson is a talented storyteller ... The world outside ... is, on balance, much weirder than you think’ The Times
‘Thompson has started an important debate in this lively and accessible book’ Scotsman
‘We should be grateful to have such a clear-eyed and lucid interpreter of our changing technological culture as Clive Thompson. Smarter Than You Think is an important, insightful book about who we are, and who we are becoming’
Joshua Foer, New York Times bestselling author of Moonwalking with Einstein
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