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Sherry Turkle

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Sherry Turkle is engaged in active study of robots, digital pets, and simulated creatures, particularly those designed for children and the elderly as well as in a study of mobile cellular technologies. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Falling For Science: Objects in Mind, appeared in Spring 2008. The third volume, The Inner History of Devices, was published in November 2008. Turkle is currently completing a book on robots and the human spirit based on the Initiative's 10-year research program on relational artifacts.

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