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

Turkle, Sherry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465010210 ISBN 13: 9780465010219

Publisher: Basic Books, 2011

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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Review:

"The idea of gadgets betraying us takes on a more lurid hue when we consider having sex with robots"!!! They go on to call the book "subtle and interesting."
--The Guardian

Book Description:

"Nobody has ever articulated so passionately and intelligently what we're doing to ourselves by substituting technologically mediated social interaction.... Equipped with penetrating intelligence and a sense of humour, Turkle surveys the front lines of the social-digital transformation."-Lev Grossman, TIME

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0465010210
• ISBN 13: 9780465010219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384