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People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
Sherry Turkle
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Sherry Turkle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 18
Non-Fiction Writer
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Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
New York City
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What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.
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Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome it is magical.
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If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.
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We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know that there are certain things they can't do. So we'll add robots to that list, and we'll learn what they can and cannot do. No harm, no foul.
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It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.
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Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.
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Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
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We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
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These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.
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Kids have moved from, I have a feeling, I want to make a call, to I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text. In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.
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