Cutting-edge science tells us that these ways of interpreting and analyzing the world around us can become habitual and that it is these habits of mind that make us who we are.

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Robot and instant communications technology capitalize on our habitual sharing of self, Turkle is saying, at cost to the healthier ways of connecting.

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