My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.
Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books
