Aspen Ideas Festival: 'Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?'
Sherry Turkle spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo., on June 30, 2015. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founder and director of MIT's initiative on technology and self.
Courtesy Dan Bayer | Aspen Ideas Festival
An Aspen Lecture about what it means to be human in the digital age. Sherry Turkle says conversation is the most humanizing thing we do, and we're not doing enough of it because we're texting and talking to machines. She says too much focus on robots reduces our empathy, self-reflection and creativity. Sherry Turkle is professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, and author of the forthcoming book "Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age."
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