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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.
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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