Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author, most recently of the best-selling Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age and Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Lesss from Each Other. A Harvard trained sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist, Turkle now focuses her research on the social, psychological, cultural, and political implications of social media, sociable robotics, mobile technology, and virtual reality.