"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. Weâ€™d rather text than talk."

Source : Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

Sherry Turkle

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“In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.”
“There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.”
“How can you lose when you're doing you?”

Source : Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, 92nd Street Y (92Y), 1992.
“The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.”
“The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 579, Sermons, 1922.
“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.”
“During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.”

Source : Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.168, MIT Press
“Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.”

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