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1. "If 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 Turkle

2. "It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy." ~ Sherry Turkle

3. "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." ~ Sherry Turkle

4. "What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you." ~ Sherry Turkle

5. "Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup." ~ Sherry Turkle

6. "Hold on to your passion - you'll need it!" ~ Sherry Turkle

7. "I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport." ~ Sherry Turkle

8. "It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us." ~ Sherry Turkle

9. "Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are." ~ Sherry Turkle

10. "Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much." ~ Sherry Turkle

11. "I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows." ~ Sherry Turkle

12. "The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn't teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation." ~ Sherry Turkle

13. "Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place." ~ Sherry Turkle

14. "The work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio offers insight into the origins of this guilt. Damasio describes two levels of experiencing pain. The first is a physical response to a painful stimulus. The second, a far more complex reaction, is an emotion associated with pain. This is an internal representation of the physical." ~ Sherry Turkle

15. "Now, relational artifacts pose these questions directly." ~ Sherry Turkle

16. "uncanny as something long familiar that feels strangely unfamiliar. The uncanny stands between standard categories and challenges the categories themselves. It is familiar to see a doll at rest. But we don't need to cover its eyes, for it is we who animate it. It is familiar to have a person's expressive face beckon to us, but if we blindfold that person and put them behind a curtain, we are inflicting punishment. The Furby with its expressions of fear and the gendered Nexi with her blindfold are the new uncanny in the culture of computing." ~ Sherry Turkle

17. "From watching children play with objects designed as "amusements," we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we imagine made to measure companions. Or, at least we imagine companions who are always interested in us." ~ Sherry Turkle

18. "If AIBO is in some sense a toy, it is a toy that changes minds. It does this in several ways. It heightens our sense of being close to developing a postbiological life and not just in theory or in the laboratory. And it suggests how this passage will take place. It will begin with our seeing the new life as "as if " life and then deciding that "as if " may be life enough. Even now, as we contemplate "creatures" with artificial feelings and intelligence, we come to reflect differently on our own. The question here is not whether machines can be made to think like people but whether people have always thought like machines." ~ Sherry Turkle

19. "Zane, six, knows that AIBO doesn't have a "real brain and heart," but they are "real enough." AIBO is "kind of alive" because it can function "as if it had a brain and heart." ~ Sherry Turkle

20. "Again, there is psychological risk in the robotic moment. Logan's comment about talking with the AIBO to "get thoughts out" suggests using technology to know oneself better. But it also suggests a fantasy in which we cheapen the notion of companionship to a baseline of "interacting with something." We reduce relationship and come to see this reduction as the norm." ~ Sherry Turkle

21. "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.5 Without alterity, there can be no empathy." ~ Sherry Turkle

22. "In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism." ~ Sherry Turkle

23. "They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves." ~ Sherry Turkle

24. "The My Real Babies frightened her," ~ Sherry Turkle

25. "I believe that in our culture of simulation, the notion of authenticity is for us what sex was for the Victorians—threat and obsession, taboo and fascination. I have lived with this idea for many years; yet, at the museum, I found the children's position strangely unsettling. For them, in this context, aliveness seemed to have no intrinsic value. Rather, it is useful only if needed for a specific purpose. Darwin's endless forms so beautiful were no longer sufficient unto themselves." ~ Sherry Turkle

26. "This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are all cyborgs now." ~ Sherry Turkle

27. "enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right." ~ Sherry Turkle

28. "Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?" ~ Sherry Turkle

29. "we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things." ~ Sherry Turkle

30. "We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need." ~ Sherry Turkle

31. "We ask [ of the computer ] not just about where we stand in nature, but about where we stand in the world of artefact. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through our intimacy with our own creations, we might become." ~ Sherry Turkle

32. "Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies." ~ Sherry Turkle

33. "Connecting in sips may work for gathering discreet bits of information, they may work for saying, "I'm thinking about you," or even for saying, "I love you," but they don't really work for learning about each other, for really coming to know and understand each other. And we use conversations with each other to learn how to have conversations with ourselves. So a flight from conversation can really matter because it can compromise our capacity for self-reflection. For kids growing up, that skill is the bedrock of development." ~ Sherry Turkle

34. "this distinctive confusion: these days, whether you are online or not, it is easy for people to end up unsure if they are closer together or further apart." ~ Sherry Turkle

35. "Texting offers just the right amount of access, just the right amount of control. She is a modern Goldilocks: for her, texting puts people not too close, not too far, but at just the right distance. The world is now full of modern Goldilockses, people who take comfort in being in touch with a lot of people whom they also keep at bay." ~ Sherry Turkle

36. "As infants, we see the world in parts. There is the good—the things that feed and nourish us. There is the bad—the things that frustrate or deny us. As children mature, they come to see the world in more complex ways, realizing, for example, that beyond black and white, there are shades of gray. The same mother who feeds us may sometimes have no milk. Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.4 With this integration, we learn to tolerate disappointment and ambiguity. And we learn that to sustain realistic relationships, one must accept others in their complexity. When we imagine a robot as a true companion, there is no need to do any of this work." ~ Sherry Turkle

37. "Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We'd rather text than talk." ~ Sherry Turkle

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

39. "But this is not a book about robots. Rather, it is about how we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face." ~ Sherry Turkle

40. "As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves." ~ Sherry Turkle

41. "Our new media are well suited for accomplishing the rudimentary. And because this is what technology serves up, we reduce our expectations of each other." ~ Sherry Turkle

42. "The technology has become like a phantom limb, it is so much a part of them. These young people are among the first to grow up with an expectation of continuous connection: always on, and always on them. And they are among the first to grow up not necessarily thinking of simulation as second best. All of this makes them fluent with technology but brings a set of new insecurities." ~ Sherry Turkle

43. "Wilson's way of keeping in mind the dual aspects of the Furby's nature seems to me a philosophical version of multitasking, so central to our twentieth-century attentional ecology. His attitude is pragmatic. If something that seems to have a self is before him, he deals with the aspect of self he finds most relevant to the context." ~ Sherry Turkle

44. "This kind of pragmatism has become a hallmark of our psychological culture. In the mid-1990s, I described how it was commonplace for people to "cycle through" different ideas of the human mind as (to name only a few images) mechanism, spirit, chemistry, and vessel for the soul.14 These days, the cycling through intensifies. We are in much more direct contact with the machine side of mind. People are fitted with a computer chip to help with Parkinson's. They learn to see their minds as program and hardware. They take antidepressants prescribed by their psychotherapists, confident that the biochemical and oedipal self can be treated in one room. They look for signs of emotion in a brain scan. Old jokes about couples needing "chemistry" turn out not to be jokes at all." ~ Sherry Turkle

45. "This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment." ~ Sherry Turkle

46. "some children become more anxious as the operation continues. One suggests that if the Furby dies, it might haunt them. It is alive enough to turn into a ghost. Indeed, a group of children start to call the empty Furby skin "the ghost of Furby" and the Furby's naked body "the goblin." They are not happy that this operation might leave a Furby goblin and ghost at large. One girl comes up with the idea that the ghost of the Furby will be less fearful if distributed. She asks if it would be okay "if every child took home a piece of Furby skin." ~ Sherry Turkle

47. "When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?" ~ Sherry Turkle

48. "Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical." ~ Sherry Turkle

49. "We expect more from technology and less from each other." ~ Sherry Turkle

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Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to her, and they kept her close. He stopped the wide chimneys, shaded the little windows, left the strong-stemmed ivy to wander where it would over the house-front, the moss to accumulate on the untrimmed fruit trees in the red-walled garden, the weeds to over-run its green and yellow walks. He surrounded her with images of sorrow and desolation. He caused her to be filled with fears of the place and of the stories that were told of it, and then on pretext of correcting them, to be left in it in solitude, or made to shrink about it in the dark. When her mind was most depressed and fullest of terrors, then, he would come out of one of the hiding-places from which he overlooked her, and present himself as her sole resource."
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