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

"We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?"
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"We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?"
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Underestimation has its uses."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?"
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Children make theories when they are confused or anxious."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"We go from curiosity to a search for communion."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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