Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, (Paperback)

from DanStratton

Sherry Turkle is a psychologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying the effects of technology on people and has written several books on her findings of the past thirty. In her latest book, she tackles how technology has effected the way we interact with each other. Ranging from ro...

from porch_reader

I'm going to write an article about how digital natives (young people who have always had technology playing a major role in their lives) approach work, so I've been reading a lot about how people interact with technology and how that changes how they interact with one another. In this book, Sher...

from Jennifer_Matthews

The five stars I gave this book was not for style, but for the impact it had on me personally. I felt her assertion that we are distancing ourselves from each other, while accepting the cold comfort of technology as a substitution to be utterly true. An intense reading experience--I've made a few...

from haloedrain

I was not expecting half of this book to be about companion robots. I find AI in general and robotic prosthetics interesting, but companion robots (and particularly children's reactions to them after brief exposure) are a big meh. Then again, I also thought the knockoff tomagachi I had as a kid w...

from dickmanikowski

This was another in a long, sad series of abandoned books. Turkle has long studied human-computer relationships in her position at MIT, and she offers valuable insights on how the digital revolution has changed us and our communities. But I allowed myself to get sidetracked and abandoned the book...