Sherry Turkle is Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and the author, most recently, of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age.
I take my 14-year-old daughter to the Darwin exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibition documents Darwin’s life and thought, and somewhat defensively presents the theory of evolution as the central truth that underpins contemporary biology. The exhibition wants to convince and it wants to please. At the entrance there are two turtles from the Galapagos Islands....
Alone Together is a work of atonement for the things Sherry Turkle missed or got wrong in her earlier work on computers and people.
In the world which is entered by way of the computer people are often not what they seem; they may hide behind their screens and offer false descriptions of themselves. The boundaries between...
Sherry Turkle has written a reasonable, useful and heroically neutral book on the Lacan phenomenon: the sudden celebrity in France as maître à penser of Jacques Lacan, an elderly...
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