Further influence
Sherry Turkle
Professor of social studies of science, MIT · Reclaiming Conversation · Alone Together
“We came to expect more from technology and less from each other.”
The idea
Turkle documents how devices, designed for constant connection, have quietly hollowed out real conversation — leaving us, in her words, expecting more from technology and less from each other.
How it shaped Orbit
She names the problem Orbit exists to push back on. The app never tries to be the relationship — it points you back toward the actual person, the real call, the message that deserves presence. Its success is measured in conversations had, not time spent in the app.
In the appThe problem it pushes against