I'm Just Telling My Story

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"I have to be able to speak the truth of who i am," she says. "This book was unes i written in blood, cause that makes it all very dramatic." She writes about how holding a secret for a family meant 'what it had meant in my life' and influenced her work.

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.