The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.