A Rhetorical Analysis Of Connected But Alone By Sherry Turkle

In Sherry Turkle’s TED talk “Connected but Alone,” published in 2012 at TED: Full Spectrum, Turkle makes the case we are allowing technology to takes us places we do not want to go. She mentions that for the past 15 years, she has been studying the effect of technology in people of all ages and has found that those mobile devices we carry are psychologically changing not only what we do but who we are. Turkle says that being alone feels like a problem that needs to be solved, therefore we try solve it by connecting. She talks about the Goldilocks effect; she says people can’t get enough of each other but only if they have each other at a distance and in amounts they can control. Turkle argues that we get the feeling no one is listening which