Smarter Than You Think

Smarter Than You Think

How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Additional Formats
  • Hardcover
  • ISBN 9781594204456
  • 352  Pages
  • Penguin Press
  • Adult




The New York Times Book Review:
“[A] judicious and insightful book on human and machine intelligence.” 

Maria Popova, Brain Pickings:
“Clive Thompson—one of the finest technology writers I know…makes a powerful and rigorously thought out counterpoint… Thompson is nothing if not a dimensional thinker with extraordinary sensitivity to the complexities of cultural phenomena. Rather than revisiting painfully familiar and trite-by-overuse notions like distraction and information overload, he examines the deeper dynamics of how these new tools are affecting the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves. Smarter Than You Think is excellent and necessary in its entirety.”

New York Magazine:
“It’s straw men everywhere in this debate. Mercifully, Thompson always works from data, not straw.”

Los Angeles Times:
“Thompson… a lively thinker… is well-versed in media and technological history, revisiting some of the field’s most valuable case studies… His intellectual posture is one of informed optimism.”

Kirkus Reviews:

Publishers Weekly
“[An] optimistic, fast-paced tale about the advent of technology and its influence on humans.”

Joshua Foer, New York Times bestselling author of Moonwalking with Einstein:
Chris Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of MakersFree, and The Long Tail:

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World:

Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus: