Alone Together
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2011
- MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle presents the results of a fifteen year exploration of the colossal impact technology has had on our lives and communities.
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What a great video. When she talks about how we expect each other to instantly reply to emails, messages and so forth really hits home.
Read the book. Brilliant. Always found myself considering sending her an email with my own story... think I'll go write that soon...
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I'm in University and I don't have a cell phone or facebook. My experience is that it's not that much harder for people to get a hold of me without these things, and I don't feel out of the loop. Also, I'm not ignorant to technology whatsoever compared to my peers. But when we're together they get my full attention and I get maybe 50% of theirs, it's frustrating. An example, I was out for drinks at a dim, low key bar with a two girls, both of whom were a bit older than me.
Yes, there is much negative about this connectivity. I admit being a bit jaded about the heightened MECHANICS to communicate in the face of the actual facility to do so. Before all this, we wanted it, (connectivity) but learned to value the limited quantity we had. In as much as we now have it, we have lost the novelty of it. This is in itself, threatening to the urgency to find each other's ideas and understand them, because our connectivity never ends, and we run the risk of loosing urgency.
@IlkaZapata With respect, might I suggest the 'Off' switch? Or politely telling his boss to stop bothering him inappropriately? Or not taking his work phone on holiday in the first place? Unless of course his job is particularly high profile, in a company that never really sleeps. In which case, the tech isn't the problem, it's the line of work. And if his position in the company is so ESSENTIAL he has to be contactable 24/7, I'm sure the salary more than compensates him and your family.
Every so often I have a disconnect weekend where I don't on my computer of phone away from the house. Sometimes it is an eye opener.
@conferencereport Hi Fred, would you mind elaborating a little on what you consider these concepts to mean (or how they differ) in this context?
@djknight90 Actually some companies do force technology on their employees. For some employers technology has become the tool to keep their employees on sight 24/7. Now there is excuse for your boss not to reach you wherever you are, specially with a company-paid cell phone. My husband works all the time, and our boss can ring him anytime, even on vacations and holidays. That's why I have a low-profile job. I do not want a boss controlling my every move. And my cell phone barely rings.
@broadcaster1star It's the same old point of "it's easier to talk, experience, and stuff like that online which makes real life relationships grow smaller" theme that's going around. While I'm sure that happens good things happen to you know? She just tells 1 side of the story to get her own point across.
Cont'd: They were constantly on their phones, and my friend turns to me and says "you need to get a phone so you can do this too, haha." It's hard to see the point in leaving my house at times. I don't think they realise how unconnected they are. I mean why not just conversate with the people in front of you. The worst is when people complain about the people they're texting as if they're forced to communicate with them. I dunno, I love technology but it makes people act a bit strange.
@gargoylesama the way forward psychologically at the leaast. I was jealous of the 80s with phones in '07. Now I've just got used to this forever rolling ball as to not eventually be that old bloke who doesn't like the new gadget of the day
@djknight90 My husband is Chief Technology Officer. He needs to be available all the time. Yes, he is well paid and no, he is not complaining. I am not complaining either. What I am saying is bosses actually do force technology on you. Being available all the time is a requirement if you want the job. Off course it's always up to you to provide less to your family for the privilege of giving them quality time.
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I wonder if the same would apply if we "knew" that the responses ...were not generated from another human being?
I am currently studying the work of Turkle for my senior thesis and am puzzeled by exactly what she is referring to when she mentions our "real lives" and "real bodies." Do you guys find that she is alluding to a liberal humanist perspective in which a transcendent "self" exists? Do you feel that our technology is now a part of our postmodern "soft self" rather than a distraction from it? I would love to hear from you
Addison Nugent
Didja ever get it figured out?
I think I'm going to leave me phone at my house tomorrow.
It makes sense to (not ALWAYS EMAILING/TEXTING) always "be able" to respond to hundreds or thousands of people who have questions. 24 hours of my day isn't consumed by technology but if my friend dies in a car crash I'd like to know then and not, as she stated, either in the morning or at night. There's hardly any instance where you have to think critically AND text at the same time, so please don't put it up as a distraction. It's just more to do and not "have" to do.
There seems to be quite a bit of slippage here between interpretations of 'performance' and 'acting'. These are treated as interchangeable concepts but they really are not.
Sadly enough, this video is probably too long to show any of my friends who would probably benefit from this level of analysis on their behaviors
"I don't like to be on my email all day"
OK... so what, does that mean no else should have the option to? No one is forcing this technology on you, or anyone else for that matter. And the parent who makes their kids compete against the Blackberry for their attention - are you saying the technology MADE them a bad parent? I'd wager they're pretty bad parents ALREADY, and the technology is just a visualisation of a particular character trait. The same applies to teens texting at the dinner table.
Internet is not real life, so many ppl forget that.
It seems like she's talking about philosophical zombies.
she has some points, but she's also vague and makes some exaggerated claims to support her points.
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there is no real you to act