The Upside of the Down Side

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There was always a feeling of not fitting in exactly. It certainly part of my yes, family's a history here in america an unease,. A desire to be quite like everyone else, that wasn't possible. The upside of the down side is that it made me realize that next to other stories that people were saying were true, there usually might be another story that was true. And i adopted that attitude toward looking at the world and trying to sort of see the world with a little bit of a twist.

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.