When compared with nature, technology comes off second best. In support of nature, pioneering landscape architect Frederik Law Olmsted (1822-1903) wrote that viewing nature 'employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it, tranquilises it and yet enlivens it'. It is well known that nature and natural settings align with what is good for you. But we're less confident about the benefits of technologies. In Natural Digital , Richard Coyne provides a timely discussion of critical issues around digital technologies, their design and their role in the global challenges confronting nature, landscapes, and urban environments, examining attempts to reproduce or enhance the natural by digital means, via computer-mediated organic, biomimetic and biophilic architecture. Taking as his starting point the common claim that the demands of digital media disrupt our attunement with nature, Natural Digital engages with digital technologies as they impinge on place. Covering frequently discussed issues posed by big data, artificial intelligence, video games, robotic pets, assistive and therapeutic technologies, the author brings into the discussion other issues worthy of greater consideration in the digital world - semiotics, the sublime, animality, refuge, numinous spaces and the gendering of nature and technology, among others - in order to enhance our understanding of architecture, landscape and the nature of place in a digital world.