"Networked, we are together, but so lessened are……" — Sherry Turkle
"Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing."
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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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Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we…
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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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Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.
— Steve Ballmer
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While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some…
— Lawrence Lessig
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The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment…
— Robert Moss
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You didnt access love, love accessed you!
— Judah Smith
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The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and…
— Daria Halprin
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I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at…
— Amanda Lindhout
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there…
— Barry Diller
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The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that…
— Simon Mainwaring
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand…
— Viggo Mortensen
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As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future…
— James Wolcott
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The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance,…
— Ben Elton
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When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold…
— Patti Smith
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