Sherry Turkle responds to Nick Carr

And then, there are all different kinds of creative acts. The Olympic skater -- on my mind, obviously -- has artistry, but without choreographer and coach, it would be all potential. Teams and differentiated roles -- therein genius. I think that what we are really struggling with is whether you can get emergent artistry without being able to deconstruct roles. If we were not struggling with this, we would not be struggling . . . . also, the great emergent ideas of the past have come from people who knew each other well, who could finish each other's thoughts. When we think about distributing ourselves, do we abandon ourselves in that we lose the potential for this kind of knowledge?
posted February 2, 2010
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