Alone Together:Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other - Softcover

Turkle, Sherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459609026 ISBN 13: 9781459609020

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller MauzE Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. She is frequently interviewed in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, on NBC News, and more. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459609026
• ISBN 13: 9781459609020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680