Becoming Quote by Ken Goldberg

Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely…

— Sherry Turkle

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…

— Anonymous

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

— Masayoshi Son

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of…

— Cynthia Breazeal

“Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the myriad of other services resonate with the basic human urge to be social. The tools have changed, but human…

— Alfred Hermida

“In less than a decade, social media is one of those things that has become part of the fabric of society. It is also…

— Alfred Hermida

“Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and…

— Isaac Asimov

The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention…

— Rodney Brooks

“social media isn’t a set of tools to allow humans to communicate with humans. It is a set of embedding mechanisms to allow technologies…

— Ryan Holiday

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

— Sherry Turkle

Social media is enhancing human connectivity as people can converse in ways that were once not possible.

— Zeynep Tufekci

We never sat down and said, 'We're going to use social media to do X, Y and Z and achieve this for the business.'…

— Ben Francis