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Technology Quotes by Sherry Turkle

62 Technology quotes by Sherry Turkle

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Technology can dial down human contact, letting us choose how much interaction we keep. Turkle notes that optimism in tech coexists with the habit of using devices to fill boredom, and that selfies force us to examine our values. She warns that these tools not only serve us but also reshape who we become.

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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

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Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

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What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

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We are not as strong as technology's pull.

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We expect more from technology and less from each other.

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We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place,

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I am not anti-technology; I am pro-conversation.

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Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

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“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.”

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“Our new media are well suited for accomplishing the rudimentary. And because this is what technology serves up, we reduce our expectations…

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“But this is not a book about robots. Rather, it is about how we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for…

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If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind…

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We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands…

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Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

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“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.”

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“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that…

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Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say…

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“The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the…

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“But when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections. And then, easy connection becomes redefined as intimacy. Put otherwise,…

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I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability?…

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We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform…

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Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one…

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“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to…

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“If AIBO is in some sense a toy, it is a toy that changes minds. It does this in several ways. It…

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“Sociable robotics exploits the idea of a robotic body to move people to relate to machines as subjects, as creatures in pain…

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“For three decades, in describing people’s relationships with computers, I have often used the metaphor of the Rorschach, the inkblot test that…

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“Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan’s comment about talking with the AIBO to “get thoughts out” suggests using…

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It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation.…

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Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of…

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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…

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“When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just…

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“As infants, we see the world in parts. There is the good—the things that feed and nourish us. There is the bad—the…

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“...we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face. We are offered robots and a whole world…

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The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us…

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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…

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We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have…

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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…

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“This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment.”

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We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

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“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can…

“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.”

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

“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…

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…

“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is…

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,…

It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think…

“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.”

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

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…

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.

The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure…

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.