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The Inner History of Devices
Topic: Technology 11:19 pm EST, Jan  6, 2009

Sherry Turkle published a new book last Halloween.

I have a closet full of ancient Apples and Macintoshes — even a Lisa — and I dare not throw one away.

Why?

From the Publishers Weekly review:

Providing a number of perspectives on how everyday technology "inhabits the inner life and becomes charged with personal meaning," this collection from author, editor and MIT professor Turkle reconsiders "sanctioned ways of understanding" average devices.

Edward Valauskas, editor at First Monday, offers a review:

This book will force you to think about your relationships with technology, and to more carefully watch those around you and their uses of different devices.

Indeed, it will make you think about the machines around you in a profound way; how do these things really make you feel?

From the archive:

Kids are certainly enthralled. "I know tons of people who are addicted."

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