Sherry Turkle Quotes


My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.


Citations

Turkle, Sherry. Interview by Bill Moyers. Moyers & Company, Public Affairs Television, 18 Oct. 2013.

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Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle
  • Born: June 18, 1948
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Educator

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained a BA in Social Studies and later a PhD in Sociology and Personality Psychology at Harvard University. She now focuses her research on psychoanalysis and human-technology interaction. She has written several books focusing on the psychology of human relationships with technology, especially in the realm of how people relate to computational objects.