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Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

Sherry Turkle

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Sherry Turkle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 18
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Passion
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Needs
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The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.
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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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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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Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
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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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We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.
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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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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
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It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
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We are not as strong as technology's pull.
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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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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 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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My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.
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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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People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
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Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.
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We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
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