We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.