Sherry Turkle
Team Human
The Importance of Solitude in Relationships
I think it was my comment that if you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely. An assault on solitude is an assault on empathy and that really is the danger of computation. I feel people are very drawn to their phones just because I have this little thing I need to do. It's not about content. You're going to lose that. But when I am with parents now,. I'm researching now kind of where we are now post-pandemic and they're in a special place. And now they're like, oh, I'm just, I know it's bad for my child to use a phone, but I'm just
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