Technology as the Architect of our Intimacies
MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who has studied the relationship between people and technology for 30 years, spoke at the Berkeley Cener for New Media last night. Jen Schradie, a Berkeley graduate student and doctoral candidate, tweeted a summary of the talk.
“ RT @STurkle: Technology is the Architect of Our Intimacies. I am speaking tonight at Berkeley Center for New Media. http://t.co/Oq78FFHschradie
“ @sturkle now speaking at #calnewmedia standing room only — Colbert told her “why don’t you teach at the Mass. Institute of Friendship”schradie
“ @cturkle : At MIT in 1977, she went to a retreat entitled, “How to keep computers busy,” @calnewmedia Ah, the irony.schradie
“ @sturkle at MIT retreat in 1977: only academics would write on a computer. One suggestion: a calendar (dismissed) All agreed on gamesschradie
“ @sturkle @calnewmedia: We have become computer’s killer apschradie
“ @sturkle in talking about the evolution of computers: “We have become the killer app” @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle re: computers and technology: No such thing as just a tool. @calnewmediaschradie
“ 2 things happened that made @sturkle more cautionary w/ tech in 1995: socialable robotics and mobile connectivity revolution @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: I’m very prorobot I’m not a luddite. I love robots. What I don’t like in a robot is Take care of me and I’ll love you @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: identity exploring online Life on the Screen was a bit naive b/c assumed on and off in virtual/real wrld @calnewmedia.schradie
“ @sturkle: My model had not taken into account the “always on culture.” @calnewmediaschradie
“ Re: Life on the Screen — @sturkle: I had not taken seriously how we could bail out of the physical /real anytime we wanted to. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle. Just b/c we grow up with the Internet doesn’t mean the Internet is all grown up. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: Texting at funerals is major. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: Parents complain about kids texting at the dinner table but it’s really parents who are doing it. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle. We’d rather text than hide. It’s a technology we can hide. Online we can be who we want to be. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: We don’t allow ourselves the time to explain complicated problems. We train ourselves to answer simpler questions. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: People measure success by e-mails, calls, texts answered. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: We tell our children that world is inc. complex but we have created a com. medium that reduces time to sit & think. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: We have gone from “I have a feeling, I want to make a call” to “I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.” @calnewmedia WOWschradie
“ What’s not being cultivated with new media is the ability to being alone to gather oneself. @calnewmediaschradie
“ @sturkle: What’s not being cultivated with new media is the ability to be alone to gather oneself. @calnewmediaschradie
