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“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.”
― arundhati roy

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― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

“Meetings are performances of what meetings used to be”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

“I send you an idea and you comment on it and send it back is a different process than us talking about an idea together. You lose the better idea that comes out of the exchange. . . . We underestimate how much we learn and read and take in of each other’s breathing and body language and presence in a space. . . . Technology filters things out. . . . Breathing the same air matters.”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

“The answer: Multitasking will not bring greater value. You will feel you are achieving more and more as you accomplish less and less. You will be asked, outright, “Why go through the anxiety of separating from all of your connections to focus on the small group you are with?” The answer: The more you talk to your colleagues, the greater your productivity.”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

“craves control more than sociability. She will email a “Sorry” instead of delivering a face-to-face apology; at work, as in her personal life, when she faces a difficult conversation, she makes every effort to sidestep it with an email.”
― Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age