“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
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem… — 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
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — 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
“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 computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it… — 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
“Artificial intelligence is often described as the art and science of “getting machines to do things that would be considered intelligent if… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“People are surprised by how upset they get in this theater of distress. And then they get upset that they are upset.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“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 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 these things… — 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 technology is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. — 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 "evil Luddite… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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