Book review: Alone Together
Friday, November 11th, 2011
In her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other (2011), Sherry Turkle, a technology and society specialist at MIT, addresses the question of whether we as humans will determine how to keep busy the cyber technology that automates our lives and disrupts, or acts as an impervious substitute for, genuine human interaction.
From social media to robots, Turkle observes that we are a society experimenting with a simulated, …
