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Tom Chatfield Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for. (Tom Chatfield Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 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 (Tom Chatfield Quotes) 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 Quotes) Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood (Tom Chatfield Quotes)