Humans Quote by Sherry Turkle

“What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?” quote by Sherry Turkle — Download Open image

“What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?”

Sherry Turkle

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

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

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“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 demand attention and claim that without it they will not survive. With this aggressive demand for care, the question of biological aliveness almost falls away. We love what we nurture; if a Tamagotchi makes you love…

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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 these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body…

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

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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,…

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It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited…

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

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

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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 "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think…

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