If you’re constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what’s on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of ‘Wired’ magazine. Then things began to change. In the early ’80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
I love sharing photographs and websites, I’m for all of these things. I’m for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
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. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn’t teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
It used to be that people had a way of dealing with the world that was basically, ‘I have a feeling, I want to make a call.’ Now I would capture a way of dealing with the world, which is: ‘I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.’ Sherry Turkle Read Quote
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don’t just change what we do, they’re changing who we are. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
