Sherry Turkle AIF 2015

Conversation is the most human and the most humanizing thing that we do.

Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and...
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Robotic Moment: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines? (Aspen Lecture)

Robotic Moment: Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines? (Aspen Lecture)

Show Notes

Conversation is facing a crisis in our culture. We regularly put people on "pause" in conversation to check our phones. We treat machines as if they are almost human. We want technology to step up, as we ask humans to step back. And having nothing to forget about how we used to relate to one another, children embrace these new rules for talking to machines. In this talk, Sherry Turkle, MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology and author of "Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age," explains how we have arrived at this "robotic moment." She explores what she calls the "four fantasies of the robotic relationship" and the impact our dwindling face-to-face conversations have on empathy.

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