What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?
Sherry TurkleTechnology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
Sherry TurkleNetworked, 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 accessedโand only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.
Sherry TurkleThese days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.
Sherry Turkle