Wise Animals
22 February 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Evocatively read by the author, Tom Chatfield.
'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, a meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming Wave
Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, and our deep involvement with our creations from the first...
Details
22 February 2024587 minutes
Tom Chatfield
9781529079784Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Timely and wide-ranging . . . Ambitious in its scopeNew 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 styleMatthew 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
