Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by MIT professor Sherry Turkle dissects the negative impacts of the digital age on life skills that face to face conversation brings. It issues a call to action to reclaim conversation. The book comes repeatedly to its main ideas from a myr...
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.
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...
Any theory predicated on "hookup culture" is bound to be full of stupidity. A theory which says all teens eschew sentimentality, and deep emotions, but also that they all adore "Twilight"'s angsty schmaltz and tortuous love is, you know, not a good or useful theory.
This book has become the laughing stock of Hampshire College. (Which, if you don't know, is the college I've recently started to attend.) The author's last name, Turkle, is now being used as a verb all over campus. For example:Two people are talking face-to-face. One person, while in conversation wi...
A psychologist's perspective on interactions with hardware (robots) and software (texting and facebook). Do intimacy or privacy belong in a machine interaction? Why do we want a robot to succeed? Why do we feel a text interaction is enough? Why don't we long for the loss of the human touch?This book...
I found this book fascinating and also quite disturbing. Turkle, a clinical psychologist and MIT professor, discusses her observations and research on the impact digital immersion has had upon human relationships. What I found particularly interesting and troubling are the observations Turkle makes ...
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