Ethan Small

“I believe that in our culture of simulation, the notion of authenticity is for us what sex was for the Victorians—threat and obsession, taboo and fascination. I have lived with this idea for many years; yet, at the museum, I found the children’s position strangely unsettling. For them, in this context, aliveness seemed to have no intrinsic value. Rather, it is useful only if needed for a specific purpose. Darwin’s endless forms so beautiful were no longer sufficient unto themselves.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“When you depend on the computer to remember your past, you focused on whatever past is kept on the computer.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other