![]() ![]() Tethered to technology, we are shaken when that world “unplugged” does not signify, does not satisfy. Things that happen in “real time” take too much time. Adults, too, choose keyboards over the human voice. Teenagers avoid making telephone calls, fearful that they “reveal too much.” They would rather text than talk. ![]() We talk of getting “rid” of our e-mails, as though these notes are so much excess baggage. Author Sherry Turkle appears on Moyers & Company this weekend to talk about how our devices are not only changing the way we communicate and interact with each other, but also who we are as human beings.Īs we instant-message, e-mail, text and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude. This is an excerpt from the book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. ![]()
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