http://being.publicradio.org/program...anscript.shtml
The link contains an interview with professor/author/sociologist/psychologist Sherry Turkle, a snippet of which I heard on NPR the other day, which included the following:
By the time of the Darwin exhibit in 2006, I think, my daughter saw a Galápagos turtle, which had been brought up from the islands. This was the life that Darwin saw. She looks at this turtle — and she's been exposed to robots, you know, ever since she's been a baby, the Tamagotchis, the Furbies, the AIBOs. She looks at me and she says, because this turtle is sleeping, she says, "For what this turtle is doing, they could have just had a robot."
The above was presented in the interview in anecdotal form in the midst of a much "bigger picture", but when I heard it, a lot of things started making sense (for better or worse). We talk about the heavy tide of animal cruelty in today's world and the "why's" of it, and this portion of the interview really spoke volumes, in my opinion.
The link contains an interview with professor/author/sociologist/psychologist Sherry Turkle, a snippet of which I heard on NPR the other day, which included the following:
By the time of the Darwin exhibit in 2006, I think, my daughter saw a Galápagos turtle, which had been brought up from the islands. This was the life that Darwin saw. She looks at this turtle — and she's been exposed to robots, you know, ever since she's been a baby, the Tamagotchis, the Furbies, the AIBOs. She looks at me and she says, because this turtle is sleeping, she says, "For what this turtle is doing, they could have just had a robot."
The above was presented in the interview in anecdotal form in the midst of a much "bigger picture", but when I heard it, a lot of things started making sense (for better or worse). We talk about the heavy tide of animal cruelty in today's world and the "why's" of it, and this portion of the interview really spoke volumes, in my opinion.
