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Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.
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To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.
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We ... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.
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When technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections.
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I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.
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Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.
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if we don't have experience with solitude - and this is often the case today - we start to equate loneliness and solitude.
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Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.
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Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
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The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.
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Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.
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We are shaped by our tools.
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They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves.
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When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
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When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.
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We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
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Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.
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The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
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She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.
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The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
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There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.
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Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
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Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.
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It used to be that we imagined our mobile phones were there so that we could talk to each other. Now we want our mobile phones to talk to us.
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I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.
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We go from curiosity to a search for communion.
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My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.
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Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
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She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.
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Connectivity becomes a craving.
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We seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.
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We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.
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The new technologies allow us to "dial down" human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.
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In my studies I found that children were most likely to see this new category of object, the computational object, as "sort of" alive - a
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A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
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He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.
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Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
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In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism.
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Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.
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Anxieties migrate, proliferate.
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The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.
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Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
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I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
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This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are all cyborgs now.
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As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
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When you depend on the computer to remember your past, you focused on whatever past is kept on the computer.
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Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.
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Real people, with their unpredictable ways, can seem difficult to contend with after one has spent a stretch in simulation.
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What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.
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Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.
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We are not as strong as technology's pull.
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People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
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This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.
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Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.
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The idea of the original had no place.
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This give-and-take prepares children for the expectation of relationship with machines that is at the heart of the robotic moment.
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Loneliness is failed solitude.
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I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.
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Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
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Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.
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Shakespeare might have said, we are consumed with that with which we are nourished by.
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Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
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The desire for the edited life crosses generations, but the young consider it their birthright.
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In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online?
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We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And
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We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.
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Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic; the jewel in the crown.
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The My Real Babies frightened her,
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As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.
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We fill our days with ongoing connection, denying ourselves time to think and dream.
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We expect more from technology and less from each other.
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It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.
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If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything.
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Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?
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A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.
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Online life is about premeditation.
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The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.
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