The test is one of many cited by Sherry Turkle in Alone Together as evidence that humanity is nearing a “robotic moment”. We already filter companionship through machines; the next stage, she says, is to accept machines as companions. Soon, robots will be employed in “caring” roles, entertaining children or nursing the elderly, filling gaps in the social fabric left where the threads of community have frayed. Meanwhile, real-world interactions are becoming onerous. Flesh-and-blood people with their untidy impulses are unreliable, a source of stress, best organised through digital interfaces – BlackBerries, iPads, Facebook.
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/30/alone-together-sherry-turkle-review
Nurturing Tech Relationships
Smart networked technologies seem to enhance daily life. They provide information conveniently, support people’s everyday routines, and make connections quick and easy. People care about their technologies – both the machines and the way they open doors to the online world. Being without Internet access can even disrupt family vacations.
Connecting by machine, as with texting, allows people to avoid human interaction such as phone calls or face-to-face meetings. Looking at a screen removes the expectations of a human encounter. Despite the texts, emails and chats that people receive daily, technology is an isolating influence that leaves them lonely.
Sherry Turkle’s latest Tedx text explain that how affected technology is changes to people. She share happen that She said the same things happened to her as her daughter instead of kissing or hugging the goodluck but using text. he said now everyone can see Facebook, checking email, posting pictures on Instagram just for likes, post what’s on twitter just for share and more. And he found effects called goldilocks effects that people could never get away from each other. Technology helps us speed things up so we can send messgae anywhere with just text and talk like reality you just talk about. Turkle showed a picture that her daughter was with her friends but she didn’t have time to talk and even talk in small talk. Here the world of technology has many implications that can help and facilitate but it can also destroy life and not improve because time is spent here instead of giving our time to family.
Do you agree with Turkle’s view on new media and the Internet? Why or why not?
I agree because they have forgotten to talk face to face with our family or friends.Sherry Turkle and Deborah Lupton make allusions to the fact that we are so attached with technology that our phones, computers and other devices make us forget to talk with each other personally and have interactions. Actually, technology is really a good help for everyone specially in some related field. In reality technology can really help us without it making our lives easier but there are some who are abusing it because it is time consuming or depleted rather than giving the family time. Others know that we use it correctly and it is our responsibility to use it well and to help us. It will not destroy us just because of it
What do you think are ways by which we can “reclaim conversation.”?
In our life, we don’t need always a technologies or gadgets for making a conversation to everyone specially to our family and friends. Every people must realize how the oral communication was important is. This will help us to gain mo experiences in our lives and also to build a social interaction with others. Let us realize that we can have a good communication together with our family, friends or love ones. We must treasure every moment with them without using any technologies because it gave us a good memories when we our having a good communication with them. This little things will help us to build more trust and to do a great things in our life
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