We may be free to work from anywhere, but we are also prone to being lonely everywhere. We begin to feel overwhelmed and depleted by the lives technology makes possible. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. And now, we are promised "sociable robots" that will marry companionship with convenience. Drawn by the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, we conduct "risk free" affairs on Second Life and confuse the scattershot postings on a Facebook wall with authentic communication. Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. The same is true of our digital technologies.
We shape our buildings, Winston Churchill argued, then they shape us. Now, through technology, we create, navigate and carry out our emotional lives. Now the question is what we don't use them for. Thirty years ago we asked what we would use computers for. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summaryįacebook. 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. 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.
Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them. Developing technology promises closeness. Always on Growing up tethered No need to call Reduction and betrayal True confessions Anxiety The nostalgia of the youngĬonsider Facebook-it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid.
Nearest neighbors Alive enough True companions Enchantment Complicities Love's labor lost Communion The robotic moment: in solitude, new intimacies. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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