Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.
Sherry TurkleIf behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.
Sherry Turklewe seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.
Sherry TurkleWe're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform to our human values; and to confronting the hard job of figuring out what those values are, and how are we're going to get technology to do that.
Sherry Turkle