Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly. Sherry Turkle More Quotes by Sherry Turkle More Quotes From Sherry Turkle If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely. Sherry Turkle teachlonelykids Robots want to love us because the field of artificial intelligence has programmed robots to say they want to love us. Sherry Turkle artificial-intelligence We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that. Sherry Turkle influencetechnologyloyalty Everything that enchants may be said to deceive. Sherry Turkle deceiving Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble. Sherry Turkle troubletryingpeople 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 doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. Sherry Turkle knowingculturethinking 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. Sherry Turkle phonesusedwould-be Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much. Sherry Turkle teenagertoo-muchfeels 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 phonesfootballchildren 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. Sherry Turkle textingdoegiving Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to. Sherry Turkle colorreallaw One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination. Sherry Turkle takenlongsex 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. Sherry Turkle termtechnologyphotograph We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place. Sherry Turkle rejectstechnologyneeds Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies. Sherry Turkle architectintimacytechnology We are not as strong as technology's pull. Sherry Turkle technologystrong Why do we want to attribute personality, empathy, being to an avatar that has none ? we talk to Siri, Echo, Alexa. We are starting to ask for their advice not just on where to order a pizza but about how we feel about our boyfriends, children, our parents. Sherry Turkle top-news Tim Cook apologizes and says,' Sorry ! Here are tools to walk it back,' what do we forget when we talk to machines ? We forget what it is to be human -- what is special about talking to a human. That is the danger. Sherry Turkle top-news Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are. Sherry Turkle justwhopowerfulchange 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 goodliketechnologychallenges
