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
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
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
“if your pet is a robot, it might always stay a cute puppy. By extension, if your lover were a robot, you… — 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
“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
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 have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know… — 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
“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
“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
