Janelle Nanos contemplates a future where we will hide things from our smartphones, like credit card spending or food binges. She spoke with sociologist Sherry Turkle:
"We’re entering into a whole new level of relationship with inanimate objects. And they’re not just inanimate objects that we can project on. We have objects that have little minds of their own." So that’s why I lie to my phone about my calories, because I feel like it thinks less of me when I screw up? "The calorie counter externalizes our self-expectations," Turkle says, explaining that these devices are becoming extensions of us. "We don’t want to have some piece of ourselves punishing us."
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