Technology and human vulnerability. A conversation with MIT's Sherry Turkle.
Technology and human vulnerability. A conversation with MIT's Sherry Turkle.
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技术和人类的脆弱性。
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S. Turkle
在过去50年的大部分时间里，技术知道自己的位置。是的，我们都花了很多时间在它上面，但即使在五年前，也很少有人会认真地声称技术已经接管了他们的生活。今天很不一样。技术不仅无处不在，而且也变得非常具有侵入性。在互联网上，人们在虚拟聊天室中虚构身份，玩出他们希望自己真正生活的生活。孩子们在互动的玩具动物中长大，这些动物像真实的宠物一样对他们做出反应。事实上，一些批评人士声称，技术不仅进入了我们的私人生活，而且开始定义它们。如果我们想确定我们会喜欢50年后的自己，我们需要仔细研究当前和未来技术的心理影响。技术领域最聪明的人已经开始了。像麻省理工学院和加州理工学院这样的大学已经投入了数百万美元来研究当技术和人类相遇时会发生什么。为了了解更多关于这项研究，《哈佛商业评论》的高级编辑黛安·L。Coutu采访了该领域最杰出的学者之一：Sherry Turkle，麻省理工学院的Abby Rockefeller Mauzé科学，技术和社会计划教授，以及《屏幕上的生活》一书的作者，该书探讨了互联网如何改变我们定义自己的方式。在与Coutu的对话中，Turkle讨论了人与他们的高科技玩具之间可能发展的心理动力学，描述了机器可能取代管理者的方式，并解释了技术如何重新定义人类的意义。她警告说，技术设计中相对较小的差异可能会对人类与技术、彼此以及自身的关系产生不成比例的影响。
For most of the last 50 years, technology knew its place. Yes, we all spent a lot of time with it, but even five years ago, few people would seriously claim that technology had taken over their lives. It's very different today. Technology is not only ubiquitous but has become highly intrusive as well. On the Internet, people invent imaginary identities in virtual chat rooms, playing out the lives they wish they really lived. Children are growing up with interactive toy animals that respond to them like real pets. Indeed, some critics claim that technology has not just entered our private lives but started to define them. If we want to be sure we'll like who we've become in 50 years, we need to take a closer look at the psychological effects of current and future technologies. The smartest people in technology have already started. Universities like MIT and Caltech have been pouring millions of dollars into researching what happens when technology and humanity meet. To learn more about this research, HBR senior editor Diane L. Coutu spoke with one of the field's most distinguished scholars: Sherry Turkle, MIT's Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the author of Life on the Screen, which explores how the internet is changing the way we define ourselves. In a conversation with Coutu, Turkle discusses the psychological dynamics that can develop between people and their high-tech toys, describes ways in which machines might substitute for managers, and explains how technology is redefining what it means to be human. She warns that relatively small differences in technology design can have disproportionate effects on how humans relate to technology, to one another, and to themselves.