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size=2>further to our little conversation about the impact of different 

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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 14px">This TED talk by 

Sherry Turkle covers the challenge of what the digital revolution </DIV>

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communication, connection and capacity to cause and use reflection</DIV>

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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 14px">This is well worth 

the 19 minutes.</DIV>

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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: Geneva, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 14px">Paul</DIV>

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here is a transcript:</P>

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rel=nofollow>Just a moment ago,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#2000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#2000" 

rel=nofollow>my daughter Rebecca texted me for good luck.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Her text said,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>"Mom, you will rock."</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I love this.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Getting that text</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>was like getting a hug.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>And so there you have it.</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>I embody</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>the central paradox.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I'm a woman</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>who loves getting texts</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>who's going to tell you</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>that too many of them can be a problem.</A></P>

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rel=nofollow>Actually that reminder of my daughter</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>brings me to the beginning of my story.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>1996, when I gave my first TEDTalk,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Rebecca was five years old</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and she was sitting right there</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>in the front row.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I had just written a book</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that celebrated our life on the internet</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and I was about to be on the cover</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#56000" 

rel=nofollow>of Wired magazine.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#58000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#58000" 

rel=nofollow>In those heady days,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#60000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#60000" 

rel=nofollow>we were experimenting</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#62000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#62000" 

rel=nofollow>with chat rooms and online virtual communities.</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#65000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#65000" 

rel=nofollow>We were exploring different aspects of ourselves.</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#69000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#69000" 

rel=nofollow>And then we unplugged.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#71000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#71000" 

rel=nofollow>I was excited.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#73000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#73000" 

rel=nofollow>And, as a psychologist, what excited me most</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#76000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#76000" 

rel=nofollow>was the idea</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#78000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#78000" 

rel=nofollow>that we would use what we learned in the virtual world</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#81000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#81000" 

rel=nofollow>about ourselves, about our identity,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#84000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#84000" 

rel=nofollow>to live better lives in the real world.</A></P>

<P 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#87000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#87000" 

rel=nofollow>Now fast-forward to 2012.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#90000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#90000" 

rel=nofollow>I'm back here on the TED stage again.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#93000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#93000" 

rel=nofollow>My daughter's 20. She's a college student.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#96000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#96000" 

rel=nofollow>She sleeps with her cellphone,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#100000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#100000" 

rel=nofollow>so do I.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#102000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#102000" 

rel=nofollow>And I've just written a new book,</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#105000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#105000" 

rel=nofollow>but this time it's not one</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#108000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#108000" 

rel=nofollow>that will get me on the cover</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#110000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#110000" 

rel=nofollow>of Wired magazine.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#112000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#112000" 

rel=nofollow>So what happened?</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#115000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#115000" 

rel=nofollow>I'm still excited by technology,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#118000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#118000" 

rel=nofollow>but I believe,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#120000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#120000" 

rel=nofollow>and I'm here to make the case,</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#122000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#122000" 

rel=nofollow>that we're letting it take us places</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#124000" 

rel=nofollow>that we don't want to go.</A></P>

<P 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#126000" 

rel=nofollow>Over the past 15 years,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#128000" 

rel=nofollow>I've studied technologies of mobile communication</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#131000" 

rel=nofollow>and I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>young and old,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#136000" 

rel=nofollow>about their plugged in lives.</A><A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#138000" 

rel=nofollow>And what I've found</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#140000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#140000" 

rel=nofollow>is that our little devices,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#142000" 

rel=nofollow>those little devices in our pockets,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#145000" 

rel=nofollow>are so psychologically powerful</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#147000" 

rel=nofollow>that they don't only change what we do,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>they change who we are.</A><A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#154000" 

rel=nofollow>Some of the things we do now with our devices</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#156000" 

rel=nofollow>are things that, only a few years ago,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>we would have found odd</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#161000" 

rel=nofollow>or disturbing,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#163000" 

rel=nofollow>but they've quickly come to seem familiar,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#166000" 

rel=nofollow>just how we do things.</A></P>

<P 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#168000" 

rel=nofollow>So just to take some quick examples:</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#171000" 

rel=nofollow>People text or do email</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#173000" 

rel=nofollow>during corporate board meetings.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#176000" 

rel=nofollow>They text and shop and go on Facebook</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>during classes, during presentations,</A><A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#182000" 

rel=nofollow>actually during all meetings.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#184000" 

rel=nofollow>People talk to me about the important new skill</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#187000" 

rel=nofollow>of making eye contact</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#189000" 

rel=nofollow>while you're texting.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>(Laughter)</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#193000" 

rel=nofollow>People explain to me</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that it's hard, but that it can be done.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Parents text and do email</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>at breakfast and at dinner</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>while their children complain</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>about not having their parents' full attention.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>But then these same children</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>deny each other their full attention.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>This is a recent shot</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>of my daughter and her friends</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>being together</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>while not being together.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>And we even text at funerals.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I study this.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We remove ourselves</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>from our grief or from our revery</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and we go into our phones.</A></P>

<P 

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rel=nofollow>Why does this matter?</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>It matters to me</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#237000" 

rel=nofollow>because I think we're setting ourselves up for trouble --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>trouble certainly</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>in how we relate to each other,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>but also trouble</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>in how we relate to ourselves</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and our capacity for self-reflection.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We're getting used to a new way</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>of being alone together.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>People want to be with each other,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>but also elsewhere --</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#261000" 

rel=nofollow>connected to all the different places they want to be.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>People want to customize their lives.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>They want to go in and out of all the places they are</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>because the thing that matters most to them</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>is control over where they put their attention.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#276000" 

rel=nofollow>So you want to go to that board meeting,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>but you only want to pay attention</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to the bits that interest you.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>And some people think that's a good thing.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>But you can end up</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>hiding from each other,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#290000" 

rel=nofollow>even as we're all constantly connected to each other.</A></P>

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rel=nofollow>A 50-year-old business man</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>lamented to me</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that he feels he doesn't have colleagues anymore at work.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>When he goes to work, he doesn't stop by to talk to anybody,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>he doesn't call.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#305000" 

rel=nofollow>And he says he doesn't want to interrupt his colleagues</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>because, he says, "They're too busy on their email."</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>But then he stops himself</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and he says, "You know, I'm not telling you the truth.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#315000" 

rel=nofollow>I'm the one who doesn't want to be interrupted.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I think I should want to,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>but actually I'd rather just do things on my Blackberry."</A></P>

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#324000" 

rel=nofollow>Across the generations,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#326000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#326000" 

rel=nofollow>I see that people can't get enough of each other,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#330000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#330000" 

rel=nofollow>if and only if</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#332000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#332000" 

rel=nofollow>they can have each other at a distance,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#335000" 

rel=nofollow>in amounts they can control.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#337000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#337000" 

rel=nofollow>I call it the Goldilocks effect:</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#340000" 

rel=nofollow>not too close, not too far,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#343000" 

rel=nofollow>just right.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#345000" 

rel=nofollow>But what might feel just right</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#347000" 

rel=nofollow>for that middle-aged executive</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#349000" 

rel=nofollow>can be a problem for an adolescent</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#351000" 

rel=nofollow>who needs to develop face-to-face relationships.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#355000" 

rel=nofollow>An 18-year-old boy</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#357000" 

rel=nofollow>who uses texting for almost everything</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#360000" 

rel=nofollow>says to me wistfully,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#362000" 

rel=nofollow>"Someday, someday,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#365000" 

rel=nofollow>but certainly not now,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#367000" 

rel=nofollow>I'd like to learn how to have a conversation."</A></P>

<P 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#371000" 

rel=nofollow>When I ask people</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#373000" 

rel=nofollow>"What's wrong with having a conversation?"</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#376000" 

rel=nofollow>People say, "I'll tell you what's wrong with having a 

conversation.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#380000" 

rel=nofollow>It takes place in real time</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#383000" 

rel=nofollow>and you can't control what you're going to say."</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#387000" 

rel=nofollow>So that's the bottom line.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#389000" 

rel=nofollow>Texting, email, posting,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#392000" 

rel=nofollow>all of these things</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#394000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#394000" 

rel=nofollow>let us present the self as we want to be.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#397000" 

rel=nofollow>We get to edit,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#399000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#399000" 

rel=nofollow>and that means we get to delete,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#402000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#402000" 

rel=nofollow>and that means we get to retouch,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#405000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#405000" 

rel=nofollow>the face, the voice,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#407000" 

rel=nofollow>the flesh, the body --</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#409000" 

rel=nofollow>not too little, not too much,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>just right.</A></P>

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rel=nofollow>Human relationships</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#416000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#416000" 

rel=nofollow>are rich and they're messy</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#418000" 

rel=nofollow>and they're demanding.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#420000" 

rel=nofollow>And we clean them up with technology.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#423000" 

rel=nofollow>And when we do,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#425000" 

rel=nofollow>one of the things that can happen</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#427000" 

rel=nofollow>is that we sacrifice conversation</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>for mere connection.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#431000" 

rel=nofollow>We short-change ourselves.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#434000" 

rel=nofollow>And over time,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#436000" 

rel=nofollow>we seem to forget this,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#438000" 

rel=nofollow>or we seem to stop caring.</A></P>

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#441000" 

rel=nofollow>I was caught off guard</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#445000" 

rel=nofollow>when Stephen Colbert</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#447000" 

rel=nofollow>asked me a profound question,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>a profound question.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#454000" 

rel=nofollow>He said, "Don't all those little tweets,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#460000" 

rel=nofollow>don't all those little sips</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#463000" 

rel=nofollow>of online communication,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#466000" 

rel=nofollow>add up to one big gulp</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#469000" 

rel=nofollow>of real conversation?"</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>My answer was no,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>they don't add up.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Connecting in sips may work</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#481000" 

rel=nofollow>for gathering discreet bits of information,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#485000" 

rel=nofollow>they may work for saying, "I'm thinking about you,"</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#489000" 

rel=nofollow>or even for saying, "I love you," --</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#491000" 

rel=nofollow>I mean, look at how I felt</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#493000" 

rel=nofollow>when I got that text from my daughter --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>but they don't really work</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>for learning about each other,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>for really coming to know and understand each other.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>And we use conversations with each other</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to learn how to have conversations</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>with ourselves.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>So a flight from conversation</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>can really matter</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>because it can compromise</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>our capacity for self-reflection.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>For kids growing up,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that skill is the bedrock of development.</A></P>

<P 

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rel=nofollow>Over and over I hear,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>"I would rather text than talk."</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>And what I'm seeing</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>is that people get so used to being short-changed</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>out of real conversation,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>so used to getting by with less,</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>that they've become almost willing</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#542000" 

rel=nofollow>to dispense with people altogether.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>So for example,</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>many people share with me this wish,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#548000" 

rel=nofollow>that some day a more advanced version of Siri,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>the digital assistant on Apple's iPhone,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#554000" 

rel=nofollow>will be more like a best friend,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>someone who will listen</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>when others won't.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I believe this wish</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>reflects a painful truth</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#564000" 

rel=nofollow>that I've learned in the past 15 years.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>That feeling that no one is listening to me</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>is very important</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#573000" 

rel=nofollow>in our relationships with technology.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>That's why it's so appealing</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#577000" 

rel=nofollow>to have a Facebook page</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#579000" 

rel=nofollow>or a Twitter feed --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>so many automatic listeners.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#584000" 

rel=nofollow>And the feeling that no one is listening to me</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>make us want to spend time</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>with machines that seem to care about us.</A></P>

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rel=nofollow>We're developing robots,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>they call them sociable robots,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that are specifically designed to be companions --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to the elderly,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to our children,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to us.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#605000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#605000" 

rel=nofollow>Have we so lost confidence</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#608000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#608000" 

rel=nofollow>that we will be there for each other?</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#612000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#612000" 

rel=nofollow>During my research</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#614000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#614000" 

rel=nofollow>I worked in nursing homes,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#616000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#616000" 

rel=nofollow>and I brought in these sociable robots</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#619000" 

rel=nofollow>that were designed to give the elderly</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#621000" 

rel=nofollow>the feeling that they were understood.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#624000" 

rel=nofollow>And one day I came in</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#626000" 

rel=nofollow>and a woman who had lost a child</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#628000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#628000" 

rel=nofollow>was talking to a robot</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#630000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#630000" 

rel=nofollow>in the shape of a baby seal.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#633000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#633000" 

rel=nofollow>It seemed to be looking in her eyes.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#635000" 

rel=nofollow>It seemed to be following the conversation.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#638000" 

rel=nofollow>It comforted her.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#641000" 

rel=nofollow>And many people found this amazing.</A></P>

<P 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#645000" 

rel=nofollow>But that woman was trying to make sense of her life</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#650000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#650000" 

rel=nofollow>with a machine that had no experience</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#653000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#653000" 

rel=nofollow>of the arc of a human life.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#656000" 

rel=nofollow>That robot put on a great show.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#658000" 

rel=nofollow>And we're vulnerable.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#660000" 

rel=nofollow>People experience pretend empathy</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#663000" 

rel=nofollow>as though it were the real thing.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#666000" 

rel=nofollow>So during that moment</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#670000" 

rel=nofollow>when that woman</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#672000" 

rel=nofollow>was experiencing that pretend empathy,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#675000" 

rel=nofollow>I was thinking, "That robot can't empathize.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#678000" 

rel=nofollow>It doesn't face death.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#680000" 

rel=nofollow>It doesn't know life."</A></P>

<P 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#682000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#682000" 

rel=nofollow>And as that woman took comfort</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#684000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#684000" 

rel=nofollow>in her robot companion,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#686000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#686000" 

rel=nofollow>I didn't find it amazing;</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#688000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#688000" 

rel=nofollow>I found it one of the most wrenching, complicated moments</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#692000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#692000" 

rel=nofollow>in my 15 years of work.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#696000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#696000" 

rel=nofollow>But when I stepped back,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#698000" 

rel=nofollow>I felt myself</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#700000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#700000" 

rel=nofollow>at the cold, hard center</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#703000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#703000" 

rel=nofollow>of a perfect storm.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#705000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#705000" 

rel=nofollow>We expect more from technology</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#708000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#708000" 

rel=nofollow>and less from each other.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#711000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#711000" 

rel=nofollow>And I ask myself,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#713000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#713000" 

rel=nofollow>"Why have things come to this?"</A></P>

<P 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#716000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#716000" 

rel=nofollow>And I believe it's because</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#718000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#718000" 

rel=nofollow>technology appeals to us most</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#721000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#721000" 

rel=nofollow>where we are most vulnerable.</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#723000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#723000" 

rel=nofollow>And we are vulnerable.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#725000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#725000" 

rel=nofollow>We're lonely,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#727000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#727000" 

rel=nofollow>but we're afraid of intimacy.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#729000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#729000" 

rel=nofollow>And so from social networks to sociable robots,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#732000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#732000" 

rel=nofollow>we're designing technologies</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#734000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#734000" 

rel=nofollow>that will give us the illusion of companionship</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#737000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#737000" 

rel=nofollow>without the demands of friendship.</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#739000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#739000" 

rel=nofollow>We turn to technology to help us feel connected</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#742000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#742000" 

rel=nofollow>in ways we can comfortably control.</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#745000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#745000" 

rel=nofollow>But we're not so comfortable.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#747000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#747000" 

rel=nofollow>We are not so much in control.</A></P>

<P 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#750000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#750000" 

rel=nofollow>These days, those phones in our pockets</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#753000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#753000" 

rel=nofollow>are changing our minds and hearts</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#755000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#755000" 

rel=nofollow>because they offer us</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#757000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#757000" 

rel=nofollow>three gratifying fantasies.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#759000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#759000" 

rel=nofollow>One, that we can put our attention</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#761000" 

rel=nofollow>wherever we want it to be;</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#763000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#763000" 

rel=nofollow>two, that we will always be heard;</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#766000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#766000" 

rel=nofollow>and three, that we will never have to be alone.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#769000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#769000" 

rel=nofollow>And that third idea,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#771000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#771000" 

rel=nofollow>that we will never have to be alone,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#774000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#774000" 

rel=nofollow>is central to changing our psyches.</A><A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#776000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#776000" 

rel=nofollow>Because the moment that people are alone,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#779000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#779000" 

rel=nofollow>even for a few seconds,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#781000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#781000" 

rel=nofollow>they become anxious, they panic, they fidget,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#784000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#784000" 

rel=nofollow>they reach for a device.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#786000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#786000" 

rel=nofollow>Just think of people at a checkout line</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#788000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#788000" 

rel=nofollow>or at a red light.</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#790000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#790000" 

rel=nofollow>Being alone feels like a problem that needs to be solved.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#794000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#794000" 

rel=nofollow>And so people try to solve it by connecting.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#797000" 

rel=nofollow>But here, connection</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#799000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#799000" 

rel=nofollow>is more like a symptom than a cure.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#802000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#802000" 

rel=nofollow>It expresses, but it doesn't solve,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#805000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#805000" 

rel=nofollow>an underlying problem.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#807000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#807000" 

rel=nofollow>But more than a symptom,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#809000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#809000" 

rel=nofollow>constant connection is changing</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#811000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#811000" 

rel=nofollow>the way people think of themselves.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#813000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#813000" 

rel=nofollow>It's shaping a new way of being.</A></P>

<P 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#816000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#816000" 

rel=nofollow>The best way to describe it is,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#818000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#818000" 

rel=nofollow>I share therefore I am.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#821000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#821000" 

rel=nofollow>We use technology to define ourselves</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#824000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#824000" 

rel=nofollow>by sharing our thoughts and feelings</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#826000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#826000" 

rel=nofollow>even as we're having them.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#828000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#828000" 

rel=nofollow>So before it was:</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#830000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#830000" 

rel=nofollow>I have a feeling,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#832000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#832000" 

rel=nofollow>I want to make a call.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#834000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#834000" 

rel=nofollow>Now it's: I want to have a feeling,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#837000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#837000" 

rel=nofollow>I need to send a text.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#839000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#839000" 

rel=nofollow>The problem with this new regime</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#842000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#842000" 

rel=nofollow>of "I share therefore I am"</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#844000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#844000" 

rel=nofollow>is that, if we don't have connection,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#846000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#846000" 

rel=nofollow>we don't feel like ourselves.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#848000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#848000" 

rel=nofollow>We almost don't feel ourselves.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#850000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#850000" 

rel=nofollow>So what do we do? We connect more and more.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#853000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#853000" 

rel=nofollow>But in the process,</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#855000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#855000" 

rel=nofollow>we set ourselves up to be isolated.</A></P>

<P 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#858000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#858000" 

rel=nofollow>How do you get from connection to isolation?</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#862000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#862000" 

rel=nofollow>You end up isolated</A> <A 

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class=transcriptLink 

title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#864000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#864000" 

rel=nofollow>if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#866000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#866000" 

rel=nofollow>the ability to be separate,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#869000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#869000" 

rel=nofollow>to gather yourself.</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#871000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#871000" 

rel=nofollow>Solitude is where you find yourself</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#874000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#874000" 

rel=nofollow>so that you can reach out to other people</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#876000 

href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#876000" 

rel=nofollow>and form real attachments.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#879000" 

rel=nofollow>When we don't have the capacity for solitude,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#882000" 

rel=nofollow>we turn to other people in order to feel less anxious</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>or in order to feel alive.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>When this happens,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#889000" 

rel=nofollow>we're not able to appreciate who they are.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>It's as though we're using them</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>as spare parts</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to support our fragile sense of self.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We slip into thinking that always being connected</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>is going to make us feel less alone.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>But we're at risk,</A><A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#908000" 

rel=nofollow>because actually it's the opposite that's true.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#911000" 

rel=nofollow>If we're not able to be alone,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>we're going to be more lonely.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#915000" 

rel=nofollow>And if we don't teach our children to be alone,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>they're only going to know</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>how to be lonely.</A></P>

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rel=nofollow>When I spoke at TED in 1996,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>reporting on my studies</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>of the early virtual communities,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I said, "Those who make the most</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>of their lives on the screen</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>come to it in a spirit of self-reflection."</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#937000" 

rel=nofollow>And that's what I'm calling for here, now:</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>reflection and, more than that, a conversation</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>about where our current use of technology</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#946000 

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rel=nofollow>may be taking us,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>what it might be costing us.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#950000" 

rel=nofollow>We're smitten with technology.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#953000" 

rel=nofollow>And we're afraid, like young lovers,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#956000" 

rel=nofollow>that too much talking might spoil the romance.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#959000" 

rel=nofollow>But it's time to talk.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#961000" 

rel=nofollow>We grew up with digital technology</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#964000" 

rel=nofollow>and so we see it as all grown up.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>But it's not, it's early days.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#969000" 

rel=nofollow>There's plenty of time</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>for us to reconsider how we use it,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>how we build it.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I'm not suggesting</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#977000" 

rel=nofollow>that we turn away from our devices,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#979000" 

rel=nofollow>just that we develop a more self-aware relationship</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#982000" 

rel=nofollow>with them, with each other</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#984000" 

rel=nofollow>and with ourselves.</A></P>

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#987000" 

rel=nofollow>I see some first steps.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#989000" 

rel=nofollow>Start thinking of solitude</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#991000" 

rel=nofollow>as a good thing.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Make room for it.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Find ways to demonstrate this</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#998000" 

rel=nofollow>as a value to your children.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1000000" 

rel=nofollow>Create sacred spaces at home --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>the kitchen, the dining room --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and reclaim them for conversation.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Do the same thing at work.</A><A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1009000" 

rel=nofollow>At work, we're so busy communicating</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that we often don't have time to think,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>we don't have time to talk,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>about the things that really matter.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1019000" 

rel=nofollow>Change that.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1021000" 

rel=nofollow>Most important, we all really need to listen to each other,</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1025000" 

rel=nofollow>including to the boring bits.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1029000" 

rel=nofollow>Because it's when we stumble</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1031000" 

rel=nofollow>or hesitate or lose our words</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1034000" 

rel=nofollow>that we reveal ourselves to each other.</A></P>

<P 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1038000" 

rel=nofollow>Technology is making a bid</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1041000" 

rel=nofollow>to redefine human connection --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>how we care for each other,</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>how we care for ourselves --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>but it's also giving us the opportunity</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to affirm our values</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and our direction.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>I'm optimistic.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We have everything we need to start.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We have each other.</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1060000" 

rel=nofollow>And we have the greatest chance of success</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>if we recognize our vulnerability.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>That we listen</A><A 

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rel=nofollow>when technology says</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>it will take something complicated</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>and promises something simpler.</A></P>

<P 

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rel=nofollow>So in my work,</A> <A 

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title=http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1078000 

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rel=nofollow>I hear that life is hard,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>relationships are filled with risk.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>And then there's technology --</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>simpler, hopeful,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>optimistic, ever-young.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>It's like calling in the cavalry.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>An ad campaign promises</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>that online and with avatars,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>you can "Finally, love your friends</A> <A 

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href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html#1100000" 

rel=nofollow>love your body, love your life,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>online and with avatars."</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We're drawn to virtual romance,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to computer games that seem like worlds,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to the idea that robots, robots,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>will someday be our true companions.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>We spend an evening on the social network</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>instead of going to the pub with friends.</A></P>

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rel=nofollow>But our fantasies of substitution</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>have cost us.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Now we all need to focus</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>on the many, many ways</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>technology can lead us back</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>to our real lives, our own bodies,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>our own communities,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>our own politics,</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>our own planet.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>They need us.</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>Let's talk about</A> <A 

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rel=nofollow>how we can use digital technology,</A> <A 

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