What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place, — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to -… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan’s comment about talking with the AIBO to “get thoughts out” suggests using… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“For three decades, in describing people’s relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“If AIBO is in some sense a toy, it is a toy that changes minds. It does this in several ways. It… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Sociable robotics exploits the idea of a robotic body to move people to relate to machines as subjects, as creatures in pain… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The technology has become like a phantom limb, it is so much a part of them. These young people are among the… — 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
“As infants, we see the world in parts. There is the good—the things that feed and nourish us. There is the bad—the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Our new media are well suited for accomplishing the rudimentary. And because this is what technology serves up, we reduce our expectations… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“But this is not a book about robots. Rather, it is about how we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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 Image
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our… — 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
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