Sherry Turkle Quotes

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create.

I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

So much of the world is digital.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.