A Canadian freelance, journalist, blogger, science, and technology writer, Clive Thompson, in his chapter on public thinking claims that technology is changing our minds for the better and it's changing the way humans interact with one another. Thompson supports his claim by introducing a story about a blogger, Ory Okolloh, born in Kenya, who didn't know how much she wrote until publishers took notice of her work and approached her to write a book. The publishers printed out all of her blog posts and "when they handed her the stack of posts, it was the size of two telephone books  (46). He then provides examples of different studies and experiments on how the Internet expands our knowledge and how powerful technology can be. Thompson's purpose is to persuade the audience that technology is changing our lives for the better in order to gain support for the improvement of technology. He works to dispel the negativity and myth-making that has ruled the public discourse. Thompson writes in a persuasive tone with informal language to appeal to the audience who read Smarter than you Think and people who believe that technology is making us less intellectual. Social media has recently been such a controversial topic due to new and improved devices changing every year. Some people believe that technology is making us unintelligent while others believe that it is improving our knowledge. Technology has impacted us greatly by increasing our knowledge and allowing us to explore more around the world. Thompson argues how social media plays a major role in how we construct knowledge to display the progress in writing, how better writing improves audience effect, and the theory of multitudes by using multiple statistics and ethos. Thompson's first claim states that because of the Internet, we humans are writing a lot more. Through statistics, "we're composing at least 3.6 trillion words daily, or the equivalent of 36 million books every day" (47). Thompson makes it seem that social media has become such a worl