Summary
Sherry Turkle: Let's renew the conversation
Eminent scientist Sherry Turkle explores how the escape from conversation undermines human relationships, creativity and productivity, and how a return to face-to-face conversation can help restore the lost humanistic ambience. People live in a technological universe where they are constantly communicating, and they have sacrificed conversation for the sake of mere technical connectivity. Based on five years of research, interviews in homes, schools and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to better understand how far technology can take us, but we also know its limitations. Time to start the conversation again. The virtues of face-to-face communication are unlimited, and the most present "technology" - conversation, resists modern challenges. People have everything they need to get started - they have each other!
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