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
“when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.” — 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
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
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
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
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
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic… — 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
When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
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
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
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
The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share
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
