“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
My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan’s comment about talking with the AIBO to “get thoughts out” suggests using… — 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
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
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is… — 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
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
“Because of my training as a clinician, I believe that this kind of moment, if it happens between people, has profound therapeutic… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we… — 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
