How to thrive in the digital age (Pan Macmillan, 2012)
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet’s adult population now spend more of their waking hours “plugged in” than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our family lives is now the status quo. But what effect is this need for constant connection really having? Tom Chatfield examines what our wired life is really doing to our minds, for better and for worse. Offering innovative and practical research, it teaches us how to prosper in a digital century – without losing our humanity.