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Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Basic Books
January 2011
On Sale: January 11, 2011
384 pages ISBN: 0465010210 EAN: 9780465010219 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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