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September 20, 2006
New Scientist magazine interviews MIT professor Sherry Turkle on social networking and the end of aloneness: "When technology brings us to the point where we're used to sharing our thoughts and feelings instantaneously, it can lead to a new dependence, sometimes to the extent that we need others in order to feel our feelings in the first place ... Self-reflection depends on having an emotion, experiencing it, taking one's time to think it through and understand it, but only sometimes electing to share it ... We insist that our world is increasingly complex, yet we have created a communications culture that has decreased the time available for us to sit and think, uninterrupted." The interview is part of a special section, which also includes a short story by Bruce Sterling titled "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google."
Posted by nick at September 20, 2006 02:05 PM