For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. — 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
