8. “ we can ill afford the luxury of
using it. Talking about
addiction subverts our best
thinking because it suggests
that if there are problems,
there is only one solution. To
combat addiction you have to
discard the addicting
substance”.
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
24. “The Tamagotchi has
crossed a threshold.
Children breathe life into
their dolls. With the
Tamagotchi we are in the
realm of objects that children
see as having their own
agendas, needs, and
desires. Children mourn the
life the Tamagotchi led”
Friday, 12 October 2012
25. “My baby died in its sleep.
I will forever weep.
Then his batteries went dead.
Now he lives in my head. “
Friday, 12 October 2012
26. Alive enough
Real Enough
Friday, 12 October 2012
34. “the first thing missing if you
take a robot as a companion is
alterity, the ability to see the
world through the eyes of
another. Without alterity there
can be no empathy”.
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
35. “Philosophers say that our
capacity to put ourselves in the
place of the other is essential to
being human. Perhaps when
people lose this ability, robots
seem appropriate company
because their share this
incapacity”
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
37. a ‘way of feeling connected in which they [children] have permission to think only of themselves”.
Friday, 12 October 2012
38. “In this relationship, treatment is not
about the simple act of telling secrets
or receiving advice. It may begin with
projection but offers a push back, an
insistence that therapist and patient
together take account of what is going
on in their relationship. When we talk
to robots, we share thoughts with
machines that can offer no such
resistance. Our stories fall, literally, on
deaf ears. If there is meaning, it is
because the person with the robot has
heard him or herself talk aloud”
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
39. “the difference between a human being pretending to care and
robot, is that a robot cannot pretend to care, it can only pretend. “
Friday, 12 October 2012
40. “This is a new kind of relationship,
sanctioned by a new language of care.
Although the robot had understood
nothing, Miram settled for what she had.
And, more, she was supported by nurses
and attendants happy for her to pour her
heart out to a machine. To say that
Miram was having a conversation with
Paro, as these people do, is to forget
what it is to have a conversation. The
very fact that we now design and
manufacture robot companions for the
elderly marks a turning point. We ask
technology to perform what used to be
‘loves labour: taking care of each other. “
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
43. “Today’s adolescents have no less need than those of
previous generations to learn emphatic skills, to think
about their values and identity, and to manage and
express feelings. They need time to discover
themselves, time to think. But technology, put in the
service of always on communication and telegraphic
speed and brevity, has changed the rules of engagement
with all of this. When is downtown when is stillness? [...]
“I have said that in the psychoanalytical tradition, one
speaks about narcissism not to indicate people who love
themselves, but a personality so fragile that it needs
constant support. It cannot tolerate the complex demands
of other people but tries to relate to them by distorting who
they are and splitting off what it needs, what it can use. So,
the narcissistic self gets on with others by dealing only with
their made to measure representations”
Friday, 12 October 2012
44. ‘I’m not ready for people –I mean people in person’.
Friday, 12 October 2012
47. “ we ask not of satisfactions in life but in our life mix. We have moved from multi taking to multi-lifing”
Friday, 12 October 2012
48. “Life on the screen moves from
being better than nothing to simply
being better. Here, the self is
reassuringly protean. You can
experiment with different kinds of
people, but you don’t assume the
risks of real relationships . Should
you get bored or into trouble, you
can [..] “move on” . or you can ‘retire”
your avatar and start again”
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
49. “Today, our machine dream is to be never alone but
always in control. This can’t happen when one is face
to face with a person. But it can be accomplished with
a robot or […] by slipping through the portals of digital
life”
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
50. The myth of Multitasking
“I can’t imagine doing this when I’m older”
Friday, 12 October 2012
53. “We insist that our world is increasingly
complex, yet we have created a
communications culture that has
decreased the time available for us to
sit and think uninterrupted. As we
communicate in ways that ask for
almost instantaneous responses we
don’t allow sufficient space to consider
complicated problems.”
Sherry Turkle
Friday, 12 October 2012
54. “I’d rather talk to a robot. Friends can be exhausting”
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