2011
07.16
By?Sherry Turkle
Basic Books,$26.95,360 pages
Do you have a Twitter feed? A Facebook page? Are they accessible from your smart phone? Did you ever have a Tamagotchi, Furby, or Aibo? When computers were first developed no one quite knew what we?d be using them for. The first computer marketed to consumers was the size of your kitchen counter and acted as a recipe file! Now our lives are inextricably connected to and through the computer. No longer do we correspond through just letters or phone calls; now we have text messages, IMs, tweets, e-mails, and wall posts. The technological (and Internet) revolution have changed the way we live, but is it also changing who we are? Sherry Turkle set out to answer that question in her new book,?Alone Together. Turkle?s book is broken down into two parts, the first being how our lives have been altered by robotics. Turkle explores how the young and the elderly are increasingly turning to robotics for the connection they would once receive from their families and peers.
The second half is dedicated to how the Internet, social networking, and mobile phoning have created an intimacy exemplified by how alone we are in it.?Alone Together is an insightful, relevant book that reveals some of the hidden costs of our technological revolution.
Reviewed by?Jonathon Howard
Source: http://sacramentobookreview.com/current_events_politics/alone-together-why-we-expect-more-from-technology-and-less-from-each-other/
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