Tom Chatfield Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.