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Creative Streak: Brainstorming in a Digital World, Part 1
Has the Internet made us better at creative thinking?
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed.
The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger.
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
In real life, you would never use a ladder that only let you go up. Likewise, when creating abstractions, stepping down is as important as stepping up . Here, we take the abstraction from the previous section, and overlay a concrete representation on top of it.
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