The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The really interesting stuff about virtuality is what you can measure with it. Because what you can measure in virtuality is everything. Every single… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing? — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however,… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
