01UndatedOnce we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
02UndatedShow 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 / quote ↗
04UndatedHuman relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
06UndatedSometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
07UndatedOne of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
08UndatedRealtechnik 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedRelationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
10UndatedWhen people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
11UndatedChallenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
12UndatedIn games, he feels that he is "creating something new." But this is creation where someone has already been. It is not creation but the FEELING of creation. These are feelings of accomplishment on a time scale and with a certainty that the real world cannot provide.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
14UndatedIf you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
15UndatedSwaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
18UndatedTechnophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
19UndatedWe may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
22UndatedWith the persistence of data, there is, too, the persistence of people. If you friend someone as a ten-year-old, it takes positive action to unfriend that person. In principle, everyone wants to stay in touch with the people they grew up with but social networking makes the idea of "people from one's past" close to an anachronism. Corbin reaches for a way to express his discomfort. he says "For the first time, people will stay your friends. It makes it harder to let go of your life and move on." Sanjay, sixteen, who wonders if he will be "writing on my friends' walls when I'm a grown-up," sums up his misgivings: "For the first time people can stay in touch with people all of their lives. But it used to be good that people could leave their high school friends behind and take on new identities.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
24UndatedUnder stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.Sherry Turkle / quote ↗
