Book description
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. Tom Chatfield
is an author, commentator and technology theorist. He has written books
on the culture of video gaming, new media and politics and the history
of digital ideas. Tom has done design, writing and consultancy work for
games and new media companies including Google, Six to Start and
Intervox, and has spoken at forums including TED Global, the RSA and the
World IT Congress. For more, see www. tomchatfield. net
