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A trusted advisor and master of implementation, she is an extension of your team. Her expert counsel pinpoints the policies, procedures and programs required to make change real and workable within your organization. Talk to Sherry about how she can become part of your team and dial-in to what it will take to make change happen for your business. Close Search. Biography We marvel at the new connections enabled by our digital devices.

Media Lessons in Empathy, and Mourning June 20, Audio April 21, March 16, Trust is Broken. Here's How to Rebuild. March 9, March 3, Newspapers, Windex, Resilience. March 2, Is Pretend Empathy Enough? America's Top 50 Women in Tech November 29, August 15, Is Your Kid Friends with Alexa? Think Different? When Is a Child Instagram-Ready? February 21, The Assault on Empathy January 1, November 14, Audio February 15, We Never Talk Anymore!

Audio November 8, May 26, Stop Googling. September 26, Speech Topics For a more in-depth understanding of these topics, book an interactive workshop or confidential advisory meeting with Sherry Turkle. Social Media. Similar Speakers Jeremy Bailenson. Those are the lost conversations I am worried about.

The fact is we need to design around our vulnerabilities. But there is no sense that the corporations that make billions of dollars from these habits are going to adopt that idea willingly. I like to look at the food industry and how it has evolved. My mother, when I was growing up, adored me but she also fed me white bread, tinned vegetables, potatoes that she made from flakes, TV dinners.

It was a profit-centred industrial kind of machine that led her to do that. But a young mother today — if that was what she was feeding her child — you would know she was not with the programme.

How did we turn that around? And that is how I think this will go also. There is study after study saying the same things: talk to each other, experience solitude, experience boredom.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you. I think it will happen slowly. I mean if you take a baby and put them on a baby bouncer that has a slot for an iPad, instead of taking time to have eye contact and reading to them, and then they go to a school where most of their instruction is on a screen, why be surprised when they show up as sixth-graders [those in the first year of secondary school] looking down at the floor and being unable to speak?

I am sympathetic to that. We are asking kids to read homework on a device that also gives them access to everything that matters to them: Facebook. How did you negotiate these things with your own daughter? I have two daughters, 16 and 12, and my experience is that you have to choose your battles… We did the sacred space thing. And it mostly worked. No computers or phones in the kitchen, at the dining table, or in the car. Those are the places I think where you create family space.

The car is very important. And it is of course crucial that you apply the same sacred space rule to yourself as to them. The issue is not that your child loves using their screen to write. The issue is that they should not be doing it when they are talking to you. Instead I had dinner with her pretty much every night. I am not anti-technology, I am pro-conversation. Can you see this becoming a movement? I do see it. Every time you go and see a doctor and he looks at a screen and not at you, for example, this movement is strengthened.

In business the research on how useful conversation is to the bottom line will make it a movement. Do you encounter hostility to that message?

Much less than five years ago. When I wrote my last book, Alone Together , people were angry. If you are addicted to heroin you have to give it up completely, go cold turkey. Here it is a different assignment. I am not planning to give up my phone. I just need to know what it is good for. Turkle has also edited several collections on how we use objects to think with, particularly in the development of ideas about science.

Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication.