Sherry Turkle Quotes

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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Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self.  And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise.  You can be a loner, but never alone.  You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

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