Sherry Turkle
Professor · MIT
Reclaiming Conversation is the book for groups, especially with youth, who want to talk about companionship, attention, and what a machine cannot hold.
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Who is harmed, who is excluded, and whose dignity is diminished in outputs and decisions.What is known about people, who knows it, and what that knowledge is used for.Shared facts, persuasion, elections, and the conversations a public needs.Fraud, cybercrime, and the weaponization of capable systems.What happens between a person and a system: overreliance, loneliness, lost judgement.Care, clinics, and the people who depend on systems they did not choose.Work, wages, skill, and the meaning of contributing.What is learned, what is lost, and who gets to know.Who can use these systems, who is shut out, and who captures the gains.Language, culture, meaning, and the texture of a shared life.
Justin Reich
Director, Teaching Systems Lab · MIT
Failure to Disrupt is a sober history of education technology. A good companion when a school group is being sold a tutor.