Publisher Description
Unpick the complexities of our digital world and discover how to live well within it. Over the last decade, through digital media, we have crossed a number of significant thresholds: the interconnection of over half of the world's adult population through mobile telephony and the internet and the devotion of more than half the waking hours of a western generation to mediated experience. Yet little mainstream thought has been given to what these transitions signify for the business of daily living; and what thought there has been too often focuses on grand claims of loss or gain.
This book asks what it means not simply to live within a digital century, but to live well with it and within it. Unlike most other contemporary accounts, it is neither a tale of technology doom nor glory, but a pragmatic guide to what questions we need to ask of the world around us; what it might mean to answer these; and what practical steps might allow us all both to choose and to use the tools at our disposal, and to live within a digital century in as fully human a sense as possible.
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About Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield is a freelance
author, consultant, game writer, and theorist. His first book Fun, Inc. was published to worldwide
acclaim in 2010. He has done design, writing, and consultancy work for games
and media companies, including Google and Intervox. He has spoken widely on
technology, media, and gaming at forums including TED Global, the Cannes Lions
Festival, the House of Commons, RSA, ICA, and the World IT Congress. A former
senior editor at Prospect magazine, he
has a doctorate from St John’s College, Oxford, and writes widely in the UK
national press, including for the Observer,
Independent, Sunday Times, Wired, New Statesman, Evening Standard, and Times
Literary Supplement.
About David Thorpe
David Thorpe has appeared in numerous stage plays, in repertory, and on tour. Twice a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, he has been heard in many radio plays and readings. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has voiced several fantasy and science fiction books, including a number of the original Doctor Who books and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.