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The Future of Onscreen Words

What does the act of typing onto billions of internet-connected screens mean for the future of language?

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The Digital Human, Series 19, Episode 5: Plenty

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This is Gomorrah by Tom Chatfield

This is Gomorrah by Tom Chatfield: a #review of a hacker thriller

A review by Nalini Haynes

This is Gomorrah opens by convincing me it’s not Gomorrah, it’s hell. ISIS recruited Western brothers, one of whom sees the other shot by enemies while trying to take Syria. The survivor takes lots of photos of his brother’s corpse in the hopes of winning the social media war. That was just the prologue.

Via Azi, aka AZ, we get a crash course in the dark web and how…

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Tom Chatfield: Artificial idiocy

“Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.”

—Tom Chatfield. 

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Set intelligence aside if you want to be lucky

Tom Chatfield; New Philosopher Magazine

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Sometimes, getting ideas and tasks outside of my head is a kind of exorcism, a release of tension. Often, though, it's a gradual process of revelation. I create someting - and then I come back to it, again and again, updating and reflecting. I've set myself a standard, and it's my job either to live up to it - or to renegotiate the terms of the deal.

Tom Chatfield

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Tom Chatfield - How to thrive in the digital age

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[W]e have the best hope of succeeding if we can reapply for the twenty-first century those principles that have always driven worthwhile critical disclosure: respect not for the authority in itself, but for the principles of honest argument, articulate self-awareness, and a genuine desire to learn.

Tom Chatfield, How to Thrive in the Digital Age