"We are using technology to feel connected while avoiding the risks of genuine connection. We are always on but never present. That is not coordination. That is the simulation of coordination — and the simulation is destroying our capacity for the real thing."
MIT psychologist who spent four decades studying how people relate to computers, robots, and digital selves. Her trilogy — from The Second Self to Alone Together — documents a civilizational shift from technology as tool to technology as companion, and the psychological consequences of substituting simulated relationship for genuine three-body coordination.