What Sherry Turkle thinks about empathy
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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1 dated position, 2012, in their own words. Our reading of what Sherry Turkle has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsPeople experience pretend empathy as though it were the real thing.
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