Sherry Turkle
Sociologist of technology at MIT, born in 1948, whose Alone Together (2011) argued that people expect more from technology and less from each other, ending up connected but more alone.
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Their wordsI'm still excited by technology, but I believe, and I'm here to make the case, that we're letting it take us places that we don't want to go.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 1st of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsour little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordswe sacrifice conversation for mere connection.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsSo a flight from conversation can really matter because it can compromise our capacity for self-reflection.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 4th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsPeople experience pretend empathy as though it were the real thing.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 5th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsconnection is more like a symptom than a cure.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 6th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsIf 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.
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com 7th of 7 in this piece
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Our reading
Their wordsLoneliness is failed solitude.
↗Alone Together (Basic Books, 2011)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Their wordsWe are increasingly connected to each other but oddly more alone
↗Alone Together (Basic Books, 2011)archive.org All 2 from this book