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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Alone Together - 24 minutes ( Sherry Turkle)

SherryTurkle-2011.02.17

Alone Together
Tech Nation
24 minutes, 11mb, recorded 2011-02-08

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and MIT Professor, Sherry Turkle, about her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other. In it, she talks about how peoples relationships with their devices is effective their human relationships. One reviewer wrote "a sobering and paradoxical portrait of human disconnectedness in the face of expanding virtual connections in cell-phone, intelligent machine, and Internet usage."

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