Sherry Turkle: ‘I am not anti-technology, I am pro-conversation’

In the social media age, we know how to connect: but are we forgetting how to talk to each other? Leading US psychologist Sherry Turkle wants to fight backFor nearly 30 years now, Sherry Turkle, professor of social psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been exploring the effects of digital worlds on human behaviour. Her books, Life on the Screen, The Second Self and Alone Together, have charted the seductions of “intimate machines”, the advance of social media