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Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.
Sherry Turkle
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Sherry Turkle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 18
Non-Fiction Writer
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we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.
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The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.
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Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.
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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
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Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
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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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Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
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There are moments of opportunity for families moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!
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What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
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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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I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.
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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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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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As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.
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Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.
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When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either. But we did this without having the conversation.
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Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.
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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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Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
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