I Don't Think She Understands Where It Came From

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"I wrote this book in a spirit of telling the truth," Tom Petty says. "i was angry at her every day, because every day i had to write my name that wasn't my nameand it's not tom" The singer-songwriter is also trained as a psychoanalyst.

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.