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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
Professor
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
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