Wise Animals

Timely and wide-ranging … Ambitious in its scope * New Scientist *
Ambitious in its scope … offer[s] a good overview of the complex nature of our relationship with technology * New Scientist *
Quite simply, one of the best books on technology and culture I have read … An extraordinary saga that is given coherence by his formidable intellect and beautiful writing style – Matthew d’Ancona, The New European
Combining compelling storytelling with erudite, compassionate and often profound insight about the human condition, this book will transform how you navigate the world. – Richard Fisher, author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
Tom Chatfield is one of the smartest and most original tech thinkers writing today. Both thought-provoking and startlingly original, Wise Animals is his magnum opus. – Roman Krznaric, author of The Good Ancestor
Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, this is a multitudinous meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human. It brims and fizzes with insight and argument, but never loses touch with that core attribute of its title: wisdom. In an age of intelligent machines, Tom Chatfield has written an essential handbook we will return to again and again – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming Wave
A timely reflection about historical and technological time that is worthy of your precious hours, as erudite and thoughtful as a reader might expect from a leading philosopher of technology. – Jonathan Rowson, author of The Moves That Matter
Writer and ‘tech-philosopher’ Chatfield is my go-to thinker on making sense of humanity’s relationship with technology. Wise Animals is a highly readable exploration of just that relationship, from the emergence of our species to now. – Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller

Dr. Tom Chatfield is a British writer, broadcaster, and tech philosopher. His books exploring digital culture have been published in over thirty languages. He has spoken about AI, tech ethics, and the future of authorship at venues ranging from the UK and European Parliaments to Google, Meta, the US National Academy of Sciences, and TED Global. He lives in Kent.

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