"Human relationships are rich and they're messy and……" — Sherry Turkle
"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 that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection. We short-change ourselves. And over time, we seem to forget this, or we seem to stop caring."
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Sherry Turkle
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42 Quotes by Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle has 42 quotes on this site.
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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…
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
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The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to…
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My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person,…
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Loneliness is failed solitude.
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If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind…
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Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time.…
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People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of…
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
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We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand…
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Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable…
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