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In Sherry Turkle’s “Connected, but alone?” Ted talk, she speaks of how technology has effected the way we think and the way we interact with other people. She explains that, “our little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don’t only change what we do, they change who we are.” She speaks of how people are beginning to use their cell phones at inappropriate times such as: board meetings, funerals, during class, and even during breakfast and dinner. We try to remove ourselves from certain situations and we feel as if our technology can take us places we want to go. As she speaks to other people about their technology use, some say they would love to know how to have a face to face conversation. Another man realizes he does not want to take the time to speak to his coworkers because he is too busy checking through his email. Technology is taking the place of relationships because with technology we do not feel alone. Sherry Turkle is challenging us to “listen to each other, including to the boring bits.”
ReplyDeleteIn Sherry Turkle's Ted Talk, she explains how technology has changed how we care for each other and how we care for ourselves. Deep conversations with others have vanished because people "would rather text than talk." Texting is a great way to say hello to a friend, but it is not good for actually getting to know someone. Our instinct as humans is to always be loved and accepted. When people don't receive that gratification, they tend to turn to technology to comfort them. Constant communication with things other than people will lead to isolation from friends and family. They may even lose their ability to look others in the eyes and to have an intelligent conversation. It is important to put aside the cell phone every once in a while to be able to have a conversation with a person, rather than with a screen or robot.
ReplyDeleteIn Sherry Turkle’s “Connected, but alone?” Ted talk, she is speaking on the topic that we are so attached to technology it’s as if we don’t know what we would do without it. She says that, “technology is taking us places where we don’t want to go”; technology is addicting and controlling. We don’t have the will power anymore to do anything without having our phone or some kind of electric device somewhere near us. Turkle said, “We are alone together.” She spoke on the topic of how even when we are supposed to be “hanging out with our friends” we are all just on our phones, but still together. Being with friends, before technology radically changed, used to be so different in so many positive ways. We use our phones as a go-to when situations become awkward. It seems impossible to have normal dinner conversations anymore due to the fact if there’s an awkward silence, we feel the urge to pull our phone out and use it as a sort of protection. Turkle says, “When you feel like no one is listening to you, you go to your device.” We need to stop relying so much on our devices and start putting them away more often and learning how beautiful life is without that as a distraction.
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ReplyDeleteIn Sherry Turkle's Ted Talk, "Connected, but Alone?", she explains why her views on the development of technology have changed since her first Ted Talk. Originally, she felt that the boons of technology far outweighed any consequences that may arise. However, she is currently not as positive towards it. In her words, she is "… Still excited by technology, but we are letting it take us to places we don't want to go…". She believes that technology, such as phones and computers, have become too distracting to us, they are all that we focus on. Yes, they are extremely helpful and aid us in many ways. But, they can't substitute for everything. You can't really get to know someone through text, and your phone is it really company. People today have confused having social media "friends" just a click away, with actually having a real, physical friend. We no longer enjoy being alone, so we turn to social medias to fulfill this loneliness. Turkle says that "we are lonely… But afraid of intimacy". She suggests that the inability to be content being alone is what causes loneliness. Instead of finding solace in our phones, we need to invest time in actually talking and listening, and then building real relationships.
ReplyDeleteIn Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk, "Connected, but Alone?," her main idea was that technology is taking us somewhere we do not want to go, but is still excited about it. She believes that over the past several technology has played an influential role in the development of things that used to be considered very strange to now become the norm. For example, a group of teenagers sitting in a room together all on their phones, not with each other mentally—it would’ve never happened in generations past. Turkle also expresses the idea that technology can be somewhat of a scapegoat. For example, she believes that technology allows us to be “alone together,” which is not a good thing because it can be a false sense of reality. Turkle also spoke of something she expressed as the ‘Goldilocks effect,’ which basically means that socially you want to be not too far not too close—never in a perfect equilibrium. She determined in her research that people naturally see being alone as a problem to be solved, which can be fixed by technology. Finally, she rendered around an old, famous quote by Descartes and said,” I share therefor I am.” Once again, she refers to a false sense of purpose or reality technology can give you.
ReplyDeleteIn the Ted Talk, “Connected, but alone?” Sherry Turkle talks about how technology is taking over our lives. She makes statements about how we are letting technology take us to places we do not need to go. Over time technology has changed who we are and has changed the way we interact with people. She makes the point of how when we text we are able to delete certain things and that makes it easier to portray ourselves in a different way. We constantly are trying to show the world a different version of ourselves and technology has allowed us to easily do that. In her Ted Talk she states, “I share therefore I am”.
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle's TED talk is the argument that technology will take us places where we don't want to go. She argues that phones have so much psychological power that they don't only change what we do but who we are. Technology seems to make communication easier but it makes face to face conversation much more difficult. We as humans focus on creating this image for ourselves online for others to see that forget about the real world. I agree with the speakers view and believe that if we keep relying so heavily on technology we will find our lives to be unsatisfactory.
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle with her TED talk “Connected, but alone?” focuses mainly on the idea that people want to have “control over where they put their attention” and this want has let to people being disconnected from each other. The “Goldilocks effect” of “…not too close, not too far, just right” has let people to be lonelier than ever. According to Turkle, we have willingly relinquished our leash in the hands of technology and now it is taking “us places that we don’t want to go”. Sherry Turkle believes that having conversations don’t just connect people with each other but it also helps them to understand each other. The skill of having meaningful conversation should be the core of our development. Our drive to create humanoid technology reflects our grief of not being heard. In the process of being connected, “we set ourselves up to be isolated”. As Turkle describes it, “If we are not able to be alone, we’re going to be more lonely”. There is nothing disgraceful about being introverted and inexpressible or losing our words because it is when “we reveal ourselves to each other”.
ReplyDeleteDuring Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk “Connected, but alone?” she describes how she now feels since the last time she was on the show talking about the ‘boon’ of the internet. She now believes that the internet is taking a more aggressive psychological power over us. It is changing us as people. We no longer speak to one another because we are so connected to this feeling of being in control. When you have a real conversation you have no idea what you are going to really say and how it will affect the person you are talking to. With being online and talking to someone you have the ability to edit and delete what you are saying, you practically have control. That sense of control is masking the actual fact that the internet has complete control over us. She explains that if we can’t find contentment in being alone, we will always be lonely. Instead of turning to our phones, we need to return to human interactions, before it is too late.
ReplyDeleteWithin the eye-opening TED talk from Sherry Turkle "Connected, but alone?" she addresses the topic of technology and how it is affecting for and the world little as we know. However, what seems hypocritical to her speech is that just a couple years earlier she had a TED talk on the "boon" of technology and the internet. This time, as her life developed with the easy access to the internet, she has a shifted view on the internet. Her main claim is that many of us are looking for love and comfort from our lighted screens, which is causing us to look the ability to speak and have conversations. Coupled with her idea, she kind of intertwined Carrs's idea in the book "The Shallows" and Mali's idea from his poem "Totally Like Whatever, You Know?" With that being said, she argues that she is still excited about technology, but we are relying on it too much when it comes to social needs. Instead of using our devices to call or text and meet up to have a conversation, we would rather just simply short text and pour ourselves to social media.
ReplyDeleteIn Sherry Turkles Ted Talk, “Connected, but alone?” she talks about how technology has significantly changed the way we live our lives. She .states that humans have let technology take them to places it was never intended to take them. The Internet has altered the way the human mind works and has now begun to alter our social interaction. Turkle makes the point that now a days we can edit our pictures and revise our tweets to make us seem more like who we want to be. “I share therefore I am.” technology has allowed us to put up a front or “flex” the world and make us look better, bigger, and stronger than we ever were, and its not a good thing.
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ReplyDeleteTechnology, has it changed humanity for better or for worse? Sherry Turkle a Ted speaker believes that society has developed somewhat of a symbiotic relationship with technology, in her talk “Connected, but alone” she gives reasons why she believes this. People have learned to use technology with just about everything. Most of the time the use of technology is for the betterment of someone’s life to make it easier. Although, some have even gone to the extent of being emotionally attached to technology. That’s where people should draw the line on becoming attached with an inanimate object, even if some type of technology is artificially intelligent it still does not live and breath and have a heart. People should gradually start to build technology to conform to us not the other way around.
In Sherry Turkle’s TED talk, she discusses how the human lifestyle has and is being changed by technology. She presents the idea that,” We are letting technology take us places we don’t want to go”. We are continuing to use technology in the same careless way while ignoring the ominous doom it presents to our communication skills. Turkle discusses that even though a cellular device may seem very small, it is powerful enough to change the way humans think and operate. Turkle argues, “We need to develop a self-aware relationship with technology and with our selves”. Most people don’t even realize how much we are reliant on technology and Turkle urges us to find a way to become more “aware” before things are too late.
ReplyDeleteIn “Connected, but alone?” a Ted talk by Sherry Turkle, She suggests that technology has caused individuals to go into hiding from each other. She argues that new technology allows us to “control the distance of people”. Text messages are an example of the distance we keep while also trying to talk with friends. Turkle claims that we can “clean up with technology” through editing and deleting our voice, face and body. However, Turkle urges people to find themselves solitude to increase their capacity of self-reflection. She believes that if you can find yourself in solitude then it will allow you to understand others easier. Turkle warns that “if we don’t teach loneliness to kids, they’ll always be lonely”. In order to deeply converse with people, people need to understand that the empathy from machines is just a trick of technology, and that intimacy is nothing to be scared of.
ReplyDeleteIt is often said that the feeling of reading an actual paper book could never be replaced by e-readers. However, in chapter six of “The Shallows”: The Very Image of a Book, Nicholas Carr believes that the “advantages of traditional books” have lessened from what they use to be and are “not quite as clear cut” (100). And while some say that these “digital readers” may bring back the reading we were once capable of, they forget that through this new medium books will now be “hyper texted”. Not only does the Net change the way people read, but it also changes the way authors write in order to keep their readers attention. Carr insist that “we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that the book bestowed on us” (114).
ReplyDeleteOn Ted Talk, Sherry Turkle strongly believes that people are being devoured by the boon of technology. She rambles on how the cell phone is so distracting that people cannot uphold a real conversation. Instead, they cast themselves into the chat of texting and Internet uses. Turkle uses her daughter as an example when using a picture of her daughter and three friends hanging out. The funny thing is that they were all on their phones so they weren’t really together. She uses this example in herself, and others in society that people are addicted to technology.
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