Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
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
