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

~ Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield Digital Age Internet Miracles Technology

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

Tom Chatfield Digital Age Digital Culture Digital Etiquette Social Media

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 new level.

~ Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield Man Recognition New

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

~ Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield Brave World Data

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 in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

~ Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield Balance Rules Video Games

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: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

~ Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield Education Success Training

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 misery.

~ Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield Human Misery Sum