Sherry R. Turkle, PhD, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology; Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Author, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (2011), Simulation and Its Discontents (2009) and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1997)