this image absolutely captures my feeling about computers. I do not want to talk to you. There are always better ways of doing input or I can talk to a person
reminds me of
« I saw people being really compulsive but really enjoying it. I saw that these guys sort of related to their terminals the way I relate to the piano and I thought, maybe I can do that too. I saw all these people running around with the same intensity as I have with the piano and they tell me that I'll probably be good at computers. These are the guys who are helping me do this course. And they keep telling me, yes, you're going to be real good at it. Don't worry about it, but you're going about it in the wrong way. They tell me I'm "not establishing a relationship with the computer." And to me that sounds gross. It is gross to me, the way these guys are. I don't like establishing relationships with machines. I don't like putting it that way. Relationships are for people. »
— “Robin”, as quoted in Sherry Turkle, “Computational Reticence: Why Women Fear the Intimate Machine”, in ‘Technology and Women’s Voices’, ed. Cheris Kramarae (New York: Pergamon Press, 1986) https://sherryturkle.mit.edu/sites/default/files/images/ST_Compu%20Reticence.pdf , 47.
