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    Faking intimacy

    Jan 29, 2019 4 minutes
    by Sherry Turkle

    Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer companion in the future, and she described the upside to me. It’s not that the robot she had imagined, a vastly more sophisticated Siri, was so inspiring. It’s that she had already found people to be so disappointing. And now, for the first time, she explained me, people have options. Back then I thought her comments seemed prescient. Now I find them timely.

    “There are people who have tried to make friends, but stumbled so badly that they’ve given up,” she said. “So when they hear

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