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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.
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I don't tell a story unless I have a very deep bench. If you tell an idiosyncratic story, there's no resonance. People read it and say, I don't see anyone like that. So I tell a story only when I have many stories behind it.
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Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.
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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
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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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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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Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!
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Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
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Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.
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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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