[Unedited] Sherry Turkle with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2012

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring what we hold dear. Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, is full of usable ideas — from how to declare email bankruptcy to teaching our children the rewards of solitude. See more at http://onbeing.org/program/alive-enough-reflecting-our-technology/63

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0:00.0	This is on Beings Unheard Cuts. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my
0:04.2	unedited conversation with Sherry Terkel. She is Abby Rockefeller-Mase,
0:08.7	Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. I spoke with
0:13.9	her on February 22nd, 2011, from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was
0:20.1	in the studios of Public Radio Station WBUR in Boston. This interview is
0:25.1	included in our show, Alive Enough, reflecting on our technology. Download the
0:30.6	MP3 of the Produced Show at onbeings.org. Oh, hello. Hello. Hi, this is
0:37.8	Christa Tippett. Hi, this is Sherry Terkel. Hi, thanks so much for doing this. My
0:42.9	pleasure this is I'm really looking, I'm really looking forward to this. Good.
0:47.0	Sorry, I haven't had a terrible cold. Well, me too. It's gonna be the walk-in wounded.
0:52.5	We'll just make it happen. Yeah, it's one of these things our children
0:56.0	give us, right? These unexpected gifts. So I'm hoping it's not gonna sound too
1:01.1	bad, but I, you know, I've been, well, I don't want to, I don't want to
1:05.5	actually start speaking substantively because then we'll be in it. But I
1:08.9	know I would actually rather not because then I find that I don't repeat
1:12.7	myself. Yeah, exactly. Because I've already said things and it gets very bizarre.
1:16.7	No, okay. So Chris, how are we for sound check? Okay, you want me to talk
1:22.0	some more. Well, just, you know, so let's not talk about this yet. I'll ask you
1:27.8	about this directly in a little while, but I was just, I just felt like, so
1:32.4	many of the reviews of your book missed a lot of the big points.
1:37.1	What are you gonna do? I mean, I mean, you know, I know as an author, it's great
1:43.5	because you've got lots of print, but no, it's very frustrating. Now, I don't
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