Alone Together Why We Expect More From Technology And Less From Each Other Quotes
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?
Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.
When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.
Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.
One of the privileges of childhood is that some of the world is mediated by adults.
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.
Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
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.
Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.
When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.
Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.
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.
He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.
For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
The idea of the original had no place.
The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.
Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead.
We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.
Online life is about premeditation.
He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.
Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.
He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.
But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.
Connectivity becomes a craving.
Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.
Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.
We go from curiosity to a search for communion.
A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.
To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.
Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.
It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.
I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.
The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.
One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.
Mobile technology has made each of us "pausable.
The very fact that we now design and manufacture robot companions for the elderly marks a turning point. We ask technology to perform what used to be "love's labor": taking care of each other.
Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.
Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.
Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler.
Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.
The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.
