Tom Chatfield

The really interesting stuff about virtuality is what you can measure with it. Because what you can measure in virtuality is everything.…

— Tom Chatfield

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in…

— Tom Chatfield

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum…

— Tom Chatfield

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…

— Tom Chatfield

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

— Tom Chatfield

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy…

— Tom Chatfield

In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've…

— Tom Chatfield

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you…

— Tom Chatfield

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules…

— Tom Chatfield

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part…

— Tom Chatfield

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed…

— Tom Chatfield

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

— Tom Chatfield

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the…

— Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential…

— Tom Chatfield

As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's…

— Tom Chatfield

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else.…

— Tom Chatfield

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're…

— Tom Chatfield

For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we…

— Tom Chatfield

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the…

— Tom Chatfield

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin…

— Tom Chatfield

I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward…

— Tom Chatfield

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population…

— Tom Chatfield

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,…

— Tom Chatfield

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often…

— Tom Chatfield

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing…

— Tom Chatfield