Quotes by Tom Chatfield - Page 1

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence
Brave
Brave New World
Data
Forget
Idiocy
New World
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Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Attentiveness
Proxy
Understood
Presence
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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 / Author
Age
Miracle
Texture
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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?
Tom Chatfield / Author
Age
Connections
Self
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As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
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Active
Infinite
Instant
Screens
Agent
Capacities
Turning
Electronic
Medium
New Kind
Possess
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We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Cracks
Hoarding
Thousand
Youtube
Amateur
Economists
Slip
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Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Literacy
Majority
Mass
Phenomenon
Population
Centuries
Reached
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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.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Computers
Men
Combination
Elsewhere
Levels
Machines
Recognition
Inaccuracy
New Level
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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 / Author
Driven
Misery
Causing
Sum
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As commentators like the American psychologist Gary Marcus have noted, it's extremely difficult to teach a computer to recognise cats. And that's not for want of trying.
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Gary
Psychologist
Recognise
Cats
Noted
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For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.
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Consuming
Interacting
Sophistication
Understanding
Waking
Advanced
Scarcely
Spent
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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.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Book
Cutting
Destruction
Digital
Discrete
Mean
Printed
Bound
Formats
Immutable
Texts
Translation
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Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Consistent
Machines
Vast
Exponential
Unlike
Motion
Tendency
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Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Civilized
Intelligent
Certain Things
Evolved
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Solving
Stimulated
Tens
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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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Brain
Broken
Engaging
Games
Ideas
Particular
Video
Challenge
Engage
Global
Presented
Reward
Spoke
Task
Ted
Video Games
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Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Digital
Appear
Medium
Occupy
Onscreen
Something Else
Text
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The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Cash
Collaborating
Given
Peers
Turn-on
Money People Doing
Biggest
Excites
Neurological
Terms
Reward
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The really interesting stuff about virtuality is what you can measure with it. Because what you can measure in virtuality is everything. Every single thing that every single person who's ever played in a game has ever done can be measured.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Single Person
Every Single Thing
Measure
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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.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Journey
Health
Democratic
Exam
Health Education
Obscure
Participation
Privileged
Self
Self Realization
Setting
Training
Confident
Daunting
Towards
Journeys
Paths
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The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Ancient
Wooing
Ancient Greeks
Teachers
Central
Demanding
Efforts
Fine Art
Greeks
Hopes
Romans
Shout
Skilled
Sufficiently
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The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Lasting
Monarchs
Noble
Priests
Reserved
Activities
Earliest
Elite
Emerged
Province
Remained
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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 / Author
Balance
Factors
Games
Order
Particular
Rewards
Skills
Special
Video
Rules
Game
Develop
Embracing
Fundamental
Restrictions
Root
Same Things
Video Games
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I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Awe
Compel
Concept
Motivate
Video Games
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Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Billions
Messages
Online
Screens
Surround
Actions
Almost All
Comments
Countless
Vast
Exchanges
Mixed
Packed
Responses
Status
Text
Typed
Verbal
Volumes
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Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Accidents
Injured
Motor
Each Year
Element
Largely
Mechanics
Million People
Perilous
Reliable
Safer
Vehicles
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In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage every single person in the room. For some, the right kind of play can spell the difference between becoming part of something, and the lifelong feeling that they're not meant to take part.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Brilliant
Range
Single Person
Sullen
Classrooms
Right Kind
Spell
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For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.
Tom Chatfield / Author
Consensus
Emergence
Intelligent
Machines
Programming
Approaching
Considerably
Deeply
Prepare
Unsettling
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