Can you improve your memory by writing on the Internet every once-in-awhile? Clive Thompson, a freelance journalist, blogger, and science and technology writer, wrote Public Thinking, published in 2013. Despite being pro-internet now, when the Internet first came out Thompson was pessimistic about it- joining the older generations, despite being twenty-one at the time, who like before believed this new advancement would destroy everything they knew. Though the twenty years following, its release, changed his view, showing him the remarkable ways it allows people to express themselves, even on a global scale, and inspiring him to write about the usefulness of technology- especially the newly created Internet. Thomson’s Public Thinking, a chapter