Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these thi….

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you..

Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fe….

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us..

We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'.

My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their fac….

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies..

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friends….

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit..

We expect more from technology and less from each other..

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely..

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are..

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are..

It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Faceboo….

We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for indi….

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude..

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves..

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusi….

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation..

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connec….

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves fro….