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Friday, 30. August 2002
Finding Good Sherry Turkle
adipujangga
23:10h
I've contemplated on finding Sherry Turkle on the net since I bought her book Life on the Screen. But, I could not find time or did not remember to pop up my Google screen and type s-h-e-r-r-y-t-u-r-k-l-e. I only did find one of her friends (probably) student, Amy Bruckman, and found her site at Georgia Tech site. See, they are geniuses while I am not, and they both belong to Harvard, while I am not; and they are both female, while I am not; and they are both white, while I am not too. So in terms of 'hegemony', I am not in the class of them. Yesterday, I found Sherry Turkle, just like the film Finding Forrester or Good Will Hunting... it was like finding a genius, a brilliant mind around. I found Sherry at http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/ and there I found her only photo. Wow, what a mysterious genius. What a beauty, at least from that 800x600 pixel interface. Her picture is smaller than that probably160x196 pixel and in black and white. Sorry, if I wronged the colors, as I am color blind. See, I was expecting a lot from her site. Of which I was disappointed, huge blopper I guess. Now, Amy Bruckman's site is better than her teacher, or mentor, or I-am-not-sure-what-relationship-they-both-had (you know in the Sack's MCD-membership categorization device-kinda world). I was hunting for some 'beyond-life-on-screen' papers but I am disappointed. Maybe, I would call Copernic to search for her again, and I will do that once I recover from the disappointment of finding Sherry Turkle on the net... Wow, what a genius, but what a mystery, what a disappointment! See Forrester was a disappointment before he read the 'Finding Family' piece as a finale; see Will Hunting was a disappointment before he found his way to California after receiving doses of reality-shaken pyschological jabs from the Southie shrink... I am in the league of believing that Sherry Turkle might be a disappointment (in that I don't know her except from her book that I loved so much) before the geniuses in her surface not now but probably later when Technology and Self becomes so much a sought-after subject area not in America alone but also in remote Malaysia.
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