And these great computer scientists got together and I was invited to the meeting because I had begun my studies of computers and people. These were the first computers that you could actually buy. Now these were the first computers that you didn’t have to build. The word personal computers really hadn’t come into the lexicon yet. There was a several day retreat in Endicott House Conference Center, in which he assembled the greatest minds in computer science really at the time to figure out the question of what people might want to do with what was then called home computers. When I first got to MIT in 1978, Michael Dertouzos, who was the head of the laboratory for computer science held a meeting. Listen to the MP3 Audio here: Sherry Turkle on Alone Together at TEDxUIUC Following is the full transcript of the TEDx Talk. Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle presents on Alone Together at TEDxUIUC.
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