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Jan 11, 2011 · But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.
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A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones. 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.
“Alone Together is a brilliant, profound, stirring, and often disturbing portrait of the future by america’s leading expert on how computers affect us as humans. she reveals the secrets of ‘Walden 2.0’ and tells us
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Jan 11, 2011 · Alone Together is neither doom-and-gloom nor overly optimistic about technology. When the book does take a melancholy tone, it is not because technology wreaks havoc on our society, but because of the needs that people are trying to meet using technology. It is not so much that technology is the bad guy.
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alone together. t. echnology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies. These days, it suggests substitutions that put the real on the run. The advertising for Sec ond Life, a virtual world where you get to build an avatar, a house, a family, and a social life, baSically says, "Finally, a place to love your body, love your friends ...
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y We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. by Sherry Turkle. New York: Basic Books, 2011. 384 pp. ISBN 978-046. 010219.Most of us hold the digital technologies we own close to our heart. We rarely leave our home without our cellular phones, and our personal computers ha. become the center of our social, economic, and ...
