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Alone Together

Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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Alone Together

Written by: Sherry Turkle
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.

©2011 Sherry Turkle (P)2011 Tantor Communication & Social Skills History & Culture Marriage Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Sociology Technology Artificial Intelligence Robotics Computer Science
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"Turkle's prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Subject seems interesting but the reader's voice sounds like a robot. It's deppressing. I couldn't go any further than the first chapter.

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