Robot and instant communications technology capitalize on our habitual sharing of self, Turkle is saying, at cost to the healthier ways of connecting.

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Following an announcement last week from Neonode, One Laptop Per Child ("OLPC"), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, confirmed today that an exciting new and transformative version of the XO device is currently in development.

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By the time Smith published a book seven months later, the firm had turned ruthless revenge-seeker, even sharing parts of Smith's self-evaluations with the media.

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Great athletes relinquish their sense of self to merge themselves with the next moment, the sharing of experience, and the importance of the team in achieving the overriding objective.

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This social capitalism is driven by collaboration and sharing, by the replacement of command and control by self-organising ecosystems of independent producers of software, apps and even components.

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