We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place, — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made. — 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
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. — 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
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere… — 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
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
In life, you are struck by the importance of presence, of the small moments of meaning, the miracle of your child's breath,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Again, technology makes us forget what we know about life. We become enchanted by technology’s promises because we have so many problems… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky.… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early… — 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… — 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
“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
“When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just… — 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
“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
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
“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
“...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
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — 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
“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
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
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
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
“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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