# Can Simulated Intimacy Change Human Relationships by Sherry Turkle > “What will time with artifacts that simulate the emotional experience of being with another person do to our human capacity to handle the surely rougher, more frictional, and demanding human intimacies on offer?” > **— Sherry Turkle**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Sherry Turkle](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27544) — Sherry Turkle's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-181). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/human-machine interaction|human-machine interaction]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “What will time with artifacts that simulate the emotional experience of being with another person do to our human capacity to handle the surely rougher, more frictional, and demanding human intimacies on offer?” — Sherry Turkle, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sherry-turkle-simulated-intimacy-change-human-relationships ```