Summary
Sherry Terkle: Alone together
Why we expect more from technology than from each other
In the last twenty years, an increasing part of social communication takes place with only minimal participation of the human body. Millions of people socialize, confide, learn, play and fall in love using only their eyes and fingertips in the process of receiving and sending information to the technological world that is unfathomable to them and the social reality that seems boundless to them. More and more robots are capable of what we considered unthinkable yesterday - including providing sexual services. As expected, this kind of situation has fundamentally changed relations between generations, genders, employers and employees, calls into question moral understandings and textbooks of psychopathology, demands new solutions for upbringing, education and marriage. The book Alone, Together deals with all these topics.
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