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Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle
American Educator
Born: Jun 18, 1948
Conversation People Phones Technology Think You
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
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. Sherry Turkle
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A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we break up our day: when we text during class, in meetings, at the theater, at dinners with friends. Sherry Turkle
Day Class Experience Other Mark Meetings Our Ways Photograph Dinners Something Shares Like Text Up Friends Any Break Break Up Theater Moment
Hold on to your passion - you'll need it! Sherry Turkle
You Passion Hold Your Need
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. Sherry Turkle
You Phone Light Seductive Blackberry About Red Red Light Know Texting Want Wants Little Who Keeping
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much. Sherry Turkle
Too Much Too Teenagers Would Rather Feel Talk Calls Reveal Text Than Much
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! Sherry Turkle
Technology Phones School Opportunity Parents Looking Eye Eye Contact Parent Pick Put Contact Make Texting Up Families Child Children Meals Moments Include Away Need
Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do. Sherry Turkle
Conversation Most Human Thing
You'll always feel lonely if you always need validation. People don't like to be around those kinds of people. Sherry Turkle
You People Lonely Validation Those Kinds Feel Like Around Always Need
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire. Sherry Turkle
Buy Great People Fire Increasingly Machines Seem Idea Children Elderly Really Companions Start Playing
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.' Sherry Turkle
Fight Book Phone Wake Up Will Think Rather Check Messages Another Leaving Amazon Wake Clock Up Than Impulse Middle Room Use Alarm Night Number
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. Sherry Turkle
Good Technology Challenges Values Reflect Our Out Good Thing Like Because Causes Human Us Really Figure Human Values Thing
Boredom is your imagination calling to you. Sherry Turkle
You Imagination Boredom Calling Your
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. Sherry Turkle
Technology Blessing Challenges Try Values Our Intimacy Would Would-Be Parkinson Look Alzheimer Brain Cure Artificial Move Human Which Us Use Reason Enhancement Human Values
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
Life You Technology Mind Feelings Breath Thinking Miracle About Struck Small Importance Child Human Meaning Your Deep Moments Connection Presence
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
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Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place. Sherry Turkle
Website Politics You Conversation World Mind Giving Down Danger Complex More Habit Thumbs Up Get Where Place Much Means
I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars 'device-free zones.' We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at work. Sherry Turkle
Work Home Conversation Car Value First Same Thing Our Dining Dining Room See Some Deliberate Kitchen Sacred Steps Partisan Make Am Demonstrate Same Children Spaces Room Create Thing Zone
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. Sherry Turkle
Will Lonely Think Constant True Feel Make Opposite Us Less Connection

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