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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.
Sherry Turkle
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Sherry Turkle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 18
Non-Fiction Writer
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Psychologist
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New York City
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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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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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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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One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.
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