Sherry
Turkle addresses some interesting points during her speech at her second TED
talk. As she mentions her original presentation in 1996 was a pro technology
presentation that placed her on the cover of Wired magazine. 16 Years later
Sherry’s presentation could be nothing further from the original idea. During
her speech I found myself thinking about my home life in comparison, while I
don’t find myself victim to many of the statements put forth I have witnessed
theses kinds of actions in the households of close friends. The idea of
separating the correlation ewe have come to built between communication and
congregation is a difficult one but Sherry outlines it well. As she mentions,
people are more inclined to spend a night with technology than a night with
friends. We do this because technology is the one thing that listens to us when
we want it too, no matter what. I agree with Sherry’s argument, especially in
the regard that parents are often spending more time on their phones than with
their children, causing the children to emulate the exact same behaviour.
-Chris Gauld
After reading your review, it almost seems like what changed Sherry's opinion about technology is being a parent as she pays closer attention to how mobile technology impacts her daughters life. It's almost like people became worse at naturally interacting with each other, and during that time we invented mobile technology to fill the gap. Now we are at point where the more you connect with others the less technology you need and less we connect the more technology we use to fill the void. Sadly, future generations are developing the bad people connection habits that their parents had.
ReplyDeleteYour comment about technology being the one thing that listens to us when we want it to is a great point. I didn't realize how much more effortless digital communication was in comparison to real life conversation and bonding.
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