On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who’s spent decades studying the impact of digital technology on our culture. She has a new memoir about growing up in Brooklyn and becoming a leading academic. Her book is The Empathy Diaries. Join us.

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(Photo: Sherry Turkle is the founder of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her previous books include Simulation and Its Discontents and Life on the Screen - Peter Urban/Basic Books).