Sherry Turkle Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Quality, Determined

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

• 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.

  Sherry Turkle

  Mean, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

• 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 of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Motivation, Inspiration

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

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

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Needs, Heal

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

• Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Doe, Texting

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.164, Basic Books

• There's a lot of research that indicates the brain rewards us for multi-tasking by giving us a shot of neurochemicals whenever we start a new task. Our brain rewards us even as our performance in every task degrades. We don't even notice that our performance is bad. We don't care. We feel like masters of the universe because our brain is chemically rewarding us for multi-tasking.

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Brain, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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