If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely. Sherry Turkle More Quotes by Sherry Turkle More Quotes From Sherry Turkle Boredom is your imagination calling to you. Sherry Turkle your you boredom imagination 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 look technology blessing challenges The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us 'on pause' in order to document our lives. It is an extension of how we have learned to put our conversations 'on pause' when we send or receive a text, an image, an email, a call. Sherry Turkle pause image us how Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know about life. Sherry Turkle know you empathy life 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 you technology life thinking Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience. Sherry Turkle face-to-face conversation patience 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 i-am work home children We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. Sherry Turkle true will feel think If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely. Sherry Turkle alone how know lonely 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 moment friends experience I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made. Sherry Turkle think celebrate people world 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.' Sherry Turkle feeling people way world
