“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/f5e/sherry-turkle-2764_artefacts_we-ask-of-the-computer-not-just-about-wh_2534681.jpg)
