Then I wrote a book called Reclaiming Conversation, which was to say here’s a path forward to reclaiming that attention through a very old human means, which is giving one another our full attention and talking. I wrote a book called Alone Together in which I diagnose a problem that technology was creating a stumbling block to empathy – we are always distracted, always elsewhere. What was your motivation for writing a memoir? It’s quite unusual for an academic to put themselves central to the story. She has published a series of acclaimed books: her latest, The Empathy Diaries, is an enthralling memoir taking in her time growing up in Brooklyn, her thorny family background, studying in Paris and at Harvard, and her academic career. She was one of the first academics to examine the impact of technology on human psychology and society. S herry Turkle, 72, is professor of the social studies of science and technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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