“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that… — 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
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
“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
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — 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
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
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
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
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
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one… — 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
“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
“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
What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
