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Robotic pets may be bad medicine
11-29-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)In the face of techno-doomsday punditry, Sherry Turkle has long been a proponent of the positive. But now the director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self says she has finally met a technology that upsets her.
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