Who said it best? A robot? oh dear.

I was looking for a phrase I thought was uttered by sociologist Sherry Turkle: about how we’re abandoning genuine human interactions for crappy synthetic ones.

Oh, here it is! “People were trading something they didn’t fully understand for something they hadn’t fully measured” — except a robot made that up.¹²

sigh! one more tally mark for the future shock scoreboard

1. was I thinking of “We are giving away really what’s most precious about being a person in order to have this friction-free pseudo-relationship. It’s killing us”? ↩︎
2. or was was I thinking of “Human relationships are rich and they’re messy and they’re demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection. We short-change ourselves. And over time, we seem to forget this, or we seem to stop caring”? [emphasis added] ↩︎