Tom Chatfield Quotes

• 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

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  Miracle, Age, Texture

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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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 from the world.

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  Book, Mean, Cutting

  "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.

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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 challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

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  Ideas, Games, Broken

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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

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  Self, Age, Connections

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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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 new level.

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  Men, Machines, Levels

  "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.

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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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  Proxy, Attentiveness, Understood

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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: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

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  Journey, Self, Health Education

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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