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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.
Sherry Turkle
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Sherry Turkle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 18
Non-Fiction Writer
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New York City
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