Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But, as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. As technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. 'Alone Together' is the result of Turkle's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy, and solitude.
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Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated social interaction.... Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a sense of humor, Turkle surveys the front lines of the social-digital transformation." --Lev Grossman, TIME
About the Author
<b>Sherry Turkle</b> is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. She is frequently interviewed in<i>Time</i>,<i>Newsweek</i>, the<i>New York Times</i>, and the<i>Wall Street Journal</i>, on NBC News, and more. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Intelligent, well documented. Gives profound insight on the changes resulting from advances in technologies. Should be read by all who desire to understand future challenges.
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By Storywizard
Format:Hardcover
After reading Jaron Lanier's "You are not a gadget" and Kevin Kelly's "What does technology want" it was a pleasant if eerie
surprise to read this text. It documents and describes our civilization's romance with technologies we barely understand. It gives fair warning of the roads we are on and a last longing look back on a time when we inhabited our bodies. As a recovered netzien I was relieved but saddened by the book, I don't have much hope that we as a species will moderate out disengagement from each other, but you never know..
A must read while you can...
surprise to read this text. It documents and describes our civilization's romance with technologies we barely understand. It gives fair warning of the roads we are on and a last longing look back on a time when we inhabited our bodies. As a recovered netzien I was relieved but saddened by the book, I don't have much hope that we as a species will moderate out disengagement from each other, but you never know..
A must read while you can...
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Distancing at first, but grows to an ever more intimate and compelling pitch
July 30 2011
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Format:Hardcover
This is the story of us. At first, its about us in relation to robots, which is not yet a day-to-day experience of mind, and a narrative I found somewhat irrelevant, although interesting. Eventually though, we get to the madness of the modern day world, people married to Facebook, texting, online gaming etc etc. Turkle tackles these questions head on with all the philosophical and psychological resources she can muster, and the result is quite respectable. Don't call it addiction when it is our love for these tools that compels us to keep them busy no matter what else in life is calling us.
Turkle uses stories about the various people she has interviewed and observed, and it is through this layering of story that she makes her case. I find her to be a most excellent and worthy guide.
Turkle uses stories about the various people she has interviewed and observed, and it is through this layering of story that she makes her case. I find her to be a most excellent and worthy guide.
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Key questions and critiques of today's technological society
Turkle's book is an inspiring piece of work that serves as a warning to moderns and technologists alike: we are at a precipice and should critically evaluate technology's place in... Read more
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an important question
Given the unquestioning love affair that our world seems to have with the newest technologies this is an important book for everyone to read. Read more
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