Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“But when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections. And then, easy connection becomes redefined as intimacy. Put otherwise,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“...we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face. We are offered robots and a whole world… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“From watching children play with objects designed as “amusements,” we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
“In the classic children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes “real” because of a child’s love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
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 Copy Share
![“We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own…” quote by Sherry Turkle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f5e/sherry-turkle-2764_artefacts_we-ask-of-the-computer-not-just-about-wh_2534681.jpg)
