Tom Chatfield Quotes
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Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy…
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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…
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I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a…
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From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure:…
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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 whole…
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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…
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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
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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…
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
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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…
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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
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Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents…
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