Tom Chatfield
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.Collection: Health
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Computers
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 livingCollection: Miracle
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Ideas
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?Collection: Self
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.Collection: Proxy