Analysis Of Alone Together Sherry Sherkle

Before telecommunications, people were known to have more developed social and interaction skills. With so much inventions every year, individuals are losing their abilities to communicate with each other in person. In “Alone Together” Sherry Turkle, explains how technology has reached a new level into invading the personal and intimate lives of people. While in “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” Adam Gopnik, describes how technology has given people the excuse to tell others of how busy and unavailable they are to others. Both essays evaluate how technology has been able to change on how technology is being used as a way to occupy oneself and reduce the authentic values in the lives of people. Media creates a barrier between individuals structuring
The device hold information about the life of the owner but can also solve any problem that they would need. The android has become that friend that you relay on more than an actual human being. Turkle exemplifies that “Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusions of companionship without the demands of friendship.” (Turkle 263). With progresses of technological research, automatons have been built to offer the idea of friendship. It is meant to be there to give comfort and take away the feelings of loneliness. However, the android takes away the feelings of solitude but the it does not require anything back, it does not request for the person to comfort the machine Technology was not meant to take the place of a human being, it was made to simplify the life of the populaces. Technology has not just given people a virtual friend but also taken away time to spend time with realistic friends. Gopnik epitomes on how technology has distracted us from authentic lives, ““Oh, you know… just… bumping into Charlie Ravioli,” meaning, just bouncing from obligation to electronic entreaty, just spotting a friend and snatching a sandwich, just being busy, just living in New York.” (Gopnik 160). With the evolution of technology, it has become an obsession to always have any time of technology on hand. The idea of an authentic life does not fully exist in the idea of this new time and age. Technology has taken so much of each individuals’ time that they tell others whom they care about that they are too busy for them. The digital equipment that is used as a daily distraction, it makes it a difficulty to live authentic lives. The android that is carried in everyone’s pockets gives people the busyness and the interference to avoid seeing others. The electronic devices have been