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Sherry Turkle
“As infants, we see the world in parts. There is the good—the things that feed and nourish us. There is the bad—the things that frustrate or deny us. As children mature, they come to see the world in more complex ways, realizing, for example, that beyond black and white, there are shades of gray. The same mother who feeds us may sometimes have no milk. Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.4 With this integration, we learn to tolerate disappointment and ambiguity. And we learn that to sustain realistic relationships, one must accept others in their complexity. When we imagine a robot as a true companion, there is no need to do any of this work.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle
“The technology has become like a phantom limb, it is so much a part of them. These young people are among the first to grow up with an expectation of continuous connection: always on, and always on them. And they are among the first to grow up not necessarily thinking of simulation as second best. All of this makes them fluent with technology but brings a set of new insecurities.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle
“These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle
“In the classic children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes “real” because of a child’s love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but demand attention and claim that without it they will not survive. With this aggressive demand for care, the question of biological aliveness almost falls away. We love what we nurture; if a Tamagotchi makes you love it, and you feel it loves you in return, it is alive enough to be a creature.”
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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