Sherry Turkle
Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Penguin Press, 2015
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Technology should augment your life, not control it. Start talking.
Recommendation
Sherry Turkle – one of the foremost experts on the impact of technology on culture and psychology – argues persuasively that technology should augment your life, not control it. Conversation and human connection, she maintains, have deteriorated. We lose our human skills. We avoid eye contact and with that the ability to read each other’s emotions. As you read, count how often you look at your phone and how many pages you can absorb without distraction. See if you can focus for six minutes. Turkle may convince you to deprioritize social media, email and texting so you can reclaim conversation and focus at home and at work. getAbstract recommends her thoughtful overview to anyone in the workforce, especially parents and teachers.
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About the Author
Sherry Turkle, a foremost expert on the impact of technology on culture and psychology, teaches at MIT.
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