We expect more from technology and less from each other.

What I'm seeing is a generation that says consistently, 'I would rather text than make a telephone call.' Why? It's less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don't have to get all involved; it's more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face.

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

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.