Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle
May 2011 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Laural Merlington
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Consider Facebook—it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.
In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for—and sacrificing—in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.
In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for—and sacrificing—in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.
Consider Facebook—it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.
In Alone Together, MIT technology a...
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Sherry Turkle is a professor of technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of several books, including Alone Together and simulation and Its Discontents.
Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including one for Never Say Die by Susan Jacoby.
Sherry Turkle is a professor of technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of several books, including Alone Together and simulation and Its Discontents.
Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earp...
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