Quotes by Sherry Turkle

About Sherry Turkle:

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a BA in Social Studies and later a Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology at Harvard University. She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction. She has written several books focusing on the psychology of human relationships with technology, especially in the realm of how people relate to computational objects.
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We expect more from technology and less from each other.

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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

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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...

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Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

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Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!

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I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

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What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than ...

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What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

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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.'

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We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.

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It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.

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Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

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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 ...

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Human 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 th...

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You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When we don't have the capa...

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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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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 pa...

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

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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...

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Author Bio

  • NameSherry Turkle
  • DescriptionAmerican social scientist and psychologist
  • Born1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychologist; Sociologist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship