Software and other technological applications can learn from what we know about how humans think in embodied and environmentally embedded ways. I love the book, and i recommend it to everyone, but especially to people who are designing software and interactive experiences. There's such an enormously potentially productive overlap between those two things. Well, you've heard it, folks, please reach out to annie and let her know, because this is important stuff.
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, The Best American Science Writing, and other publications.
Our conversation focuses on the subject of her latest book, The Extended Mind, which is about how human cognition relies on our bodies, other people, and the material world. I loved this book and was thrilled to ask Annie about how this line of thinking plays out in the context of our heavily digitized lives.
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