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01c. 1948 AD

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Sherry Turkle / quote

02c. 1948 AD

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

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03c. 1948 AD

Connectivity becomes a craving.

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04c. 1948 AD

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

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05c. 1948 AD

There is another way to think about conversation, one that is less about information and more about creating a space to be explored. You are interested in hearing about how another person approaches things—her or her opinions and associations. In this kind of conversation—I think of it as 'whole person conversation'—if things go quiet for a while you look deeper, you don't look away or text a friend. You try to read your friends in a different way. Perhaps you look into their faces or attend to their body language. Or you allow for silence. Perhaps when we talk about 'conversations' being boring, such a frequent complaint, we are saying how uncomfortable we are with stillness.

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06c. 1948 AD

The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, "We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

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07c. 1948 AD

Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.

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08c. 1948 AD

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.

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09c. 1948 AD

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

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10c. 1948 AD

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

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11c. 1948 AD

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

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12c. 1948 AD

There are moments of opportunity for families moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

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13c. 1948 AD

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.

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