Sherry Turkle Quotes

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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 talk.
• We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of…
• We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
• The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
• My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing…
• Loneliness is failed solitude.
• If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations…
• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things…
• Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome;…
• People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
• Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
• We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact.…
• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but…
• Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?
• These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them…
• We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.
• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only…
• What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.
• We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I…
• Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.

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