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

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

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

- 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 to …

- Tom Chatfield

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 tas…

- Tom Chatfield

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

- Tom Chatfield

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

- Tom Chatfield