Don't Teach Your Children to Be Lonely

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There's a great line in psychoanalytic thinking, which is, if you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely. And so what phones do, particularly when you start to give them to young kids, is it cuts that process off. Sojusow dating where i am right now, not knowing what happened to ted crewz. To day, notKnowing what happened to whoever to morrow. If you're always looking at your screen, you really never turn to somebody else and say, well, who are you? I'd like to get to know you. Tell me something about yourself.

Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, The Empathy Diaries, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute observer, skilled at revealing the story behind the story. She also chronicles the early days of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the computer. Topics in this conversation include the challenges of family, the role of technology in our lives, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the importance of Bambi.