Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

"When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part."
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"When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Computers brought philosophy into everyday life."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"A woman in her late sixties described her new i Phone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?"
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Children content with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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