Best quotes by Sherry Turkle on Technology

Checkout quotes by Sherry Turkle on Technology

• ‟ Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

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• ‟ Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.

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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 parent!

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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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• ‟ In life, you are struck by the importance of presence, of the small moments of meaning, the miracle of your child's breath, the feelings of deep human connection. When you are thinking about technology, your mind is not on all of that.

  - Sherry Turkle