233 Quotes by Sherry Turkle

When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.

The real emergency may be parents and children not having conversations or sharing a silence between them that gives each the time to bring up a funny story or a troubling thought.

If you’re having a conversation with someone in speech, and it’s not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it’s not like that. On the Internet it’s almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can’t say, “I changed my mind.

I miss those days even though I wasn’t alive.

I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of.

Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt.

Mobile technology is here to stay, along with all the wonders it brings. Yet it is time for us to consider how it may get in the way of other things we hold dear – and how once we recognize this, we can take action: We can both redesign technology and change how we bring it into our lives. A.

To reclaim solitude we have to learn to experience a moment of boredom as a reason to turn inward, to defer going “elsewhere” at least some of the time.

These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its bells and whistles, the more you circle back to the simple power of conversation.