Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by:
Sherry Turkle (author)
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,...
show more
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.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465031467 (0465031463)
ASIN: 465031463
Publish date: October 2nd 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
I decided not to finish this because it wasn't doing it for me. I agreed in some ways with the stuff I did read but also felt like Turkle was focusing too much on things that were true of anyone interfacing with technology at any point in time - it might feel new nowadays, but it's really not.
I decided not to finish this because it wasn't doing it for me. I agreed in some ways with the stuff I did read but also felt like Turkle was focusing too much on things that were true of anyone interfacing with technology at any point in time - it might feel new nowadays, but it's really not.
Great if you like one-sided alarmism. Otherwise, vomit-inducing.
Sigh. This book. Great title, great subtitle, I wish the content had delivered. Unfortunately I am no closer to telling you why we expect more from technology & less from each other than I was before I read this book.One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that, even though I was...
A very worthwhile book to read. Having been part of the world of artificial intelligence and robotics in years past, this book is a fine overview of the development of the first "thinking" machines (like ELIZA) to the current trend of robots that "feel" or relate. Or at least we have programmed th...