"Once the words of a book appear onscreen,……" — Tom Chatfield
"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 the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too."
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12 Quotes by Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield has 12 quotes on this site.
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Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects:…
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I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent…
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Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions…
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks…
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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with…
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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…
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