A Passion for Objects

By SHERRY TURKLE

How science is fueled by an attachment to things

In the ongoing national conversation about science education in America, there is a new consensus that we have entered a time of crisis in our relationship to the international scientific and engineering community. For generations we have led; now Americans wonder why our students are turning away from science and mathematics — at best content to be the world's brokers, broadcasters, and lawyers, and at worst simply dropping