Sherry Turkle Quotes - Page 2

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• Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

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  Technology, Intimacy, Architect

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

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  Giving, Needs, Heal

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.9, Basic Books

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• It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

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  Technology, Light, Skills

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• We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

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  Technology, Needs, Rejects

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• My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.

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  Uplifting, Loneliness, Heart

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books

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• As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

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  May, Abandon

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books

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• Loneliness is failed solitude.

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  Loneliness, Solitude, Introvert

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books

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• Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

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  Lying, Insecure, Mirrors

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.279, MIT Press

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• Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.

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  Mean, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

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• What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

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  Faces, Telephones, Generations

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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.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• 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 going to know how to be lonely.

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  Lonely, Children, Motivation

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• I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

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  Writing, Thinking, Appreciate

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• When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology.

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  Technology, Heroin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

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  Giving, Quality, Determined

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.14, Basic Books

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• Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

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  Encounters, Doe, Kind

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books

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• There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

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  Children, School, Eye

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• We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or we incorporate so many machine parts that we don't know where we end and the machine begins.

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  Cyborg

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

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  Lonely, Intimacy

  "Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.

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• Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.

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  Teenager, School, Phones

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• Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us.

  Sherry Turkle

  Artificial Intelligence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

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  Technology, Want

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• Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text." In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.

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  Kids, Feelings, Vote

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become.

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  World, Links, Might

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• It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

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  Phones, Would Be, Used

  "We expect more from technology and less from each other" by Sherry Turkle, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.

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