# Technology Changes How We See Ourselves by Sherry Turkle > “Every technology has an instrumental side, what the technology does for us and a subjective side, what the technology does to us, to our ways of seeing the world, including to our ways of thinking about ourselves.” > **— Sherry Turkle**, *“Turkle’s Law of Evocative Objects,” Edge Annual Question, 2004* ## Sources and Context - **Direct full source and exact passage:** [“Turkle’s Law of Evocative Objects,” Edge Annual Question, 2004](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10426) — Turkle distinguishes what a tool performs from the way it changes the user's identity and interpretation; her essay then applies this distinction to the Internet, genetic sequencing, and social robots. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Technology|Technology]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Technology|Technology]] - [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Every technology has an instrumental side, what the technology does for us and a subjective side, what the technology does to us, to our ways of seeing the world, including to our ways of thinking about ourselves.” — Sherry Turkle, “Turkle’s Law of Evocative Objects,” Edge Annual Question, 2004 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-sherry-turkle-technology-changes-how-we-see-ourselves ```