Sherry Turkle
"Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other"

Underwritten by Van Wyk Risk & Financial Management

A professor, author, consultant, researcher and licensed clinical psychologist, Sherry Turkle has spent the last 20 years researching the psychology of people's relationships with technology.  She is a professor at MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.  Her latest book "Alone Together" explores our digital lives in todays always on, always connected culture.  Profiles of Sherry have appeared in such publications as The New York Times,Scientific American, and Wired Magazine.  She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC, and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20.