Connecting points for Turkle and Gopnik “What changed? That James story helps supply the key. It was trains and telegrams. The railroad ended isolation‚ and packed the metropolis with people whose work was defined by a complicated network of social obligations. “ (Gopnik 157). | “She confined that she would trade in her boyfriend ‘for a sophisticated Japanese robot’ if the robot would produce what she called “caring environment”… I would be happy to produce the illusion that there is somebody
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In Sherry Turkle’s case study‚ Turkle’s purpose is to inform the audience that technology is widening the gap between connection and conversation. She is an advocate for conversation and she supports her claim that face-to-face conversation is more beneficial than communicating with technology by using research‚ science‚ and first-hand accounts. Turkle also wants us to change how we use technology as a way to communicate because she states the problems associated with it but she also gives specific
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Imitation and Authenticity Humans can be distinguished in many features from animals. Some might ask what are some unique characteristics that only humans have. While some people believe that the learning differentiates between humans and animals‚ others think that souls and spirits differentiate humans from animals. In “Strange Creatures”‚ Susan Blackmore talks about the idea of imitation and the way that humanity creates “memes” that are a collection of cognitive units of information. Memes
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not really imitating humans because they are missing something the most important thing in human society‚ which is sharing emotions. Turkle says “ I am troubled by the idea of seeking intimacy with a machine that has no feelings‚ can have no feelings‚ and is really just a clever collection of “as if” performances‚ behaving as if it cared‚ as if it understood us” (Turkle 267). Robots easily accept any amount of memory and other information that are applied to them by humans. However‚ many people doubt
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programs are fortunate. It is here in these educational repair shops that Sherry states these students discover that they have been cheated by the educational system. I do not think that Sherry is fair in making these statements. She did not present enough evidence to me to get me to buy into her arguments. There are several concerns with this essay that make her views unacceptable. My first problem with this Essay is that Sherry teaches an adult-literacy program. From that viewpoint she does have
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Compare and Contrast I will be comparing the two stories of David Gelernter and Sherry Turkle. Gelernter’s story explains why children who use computers in schools are not learning basic skills‚ while Turkle’s story tells why children who use computers in school are actually changing the way people think in life. I will be showing their similarities throughout my paper. Both Gelernter and Turkle talk about using computers in the school system. They both believe that this does not help anyone learn
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Final Draft: Slater vs Turkle How can Turkle’s concept of “authenticity” help us see Slater in a new way? Both face-to-face interaction and social networking sites (including Myspace‚ Twitter‚ and Facebook) are forms of staying in contact with friends and family. While Nora from Turkle’s “Alone together” communicates her engagement and wedding date via email to her closest friends and family‚ she could have easily announced it face-to-face‚ at a party or through a Facebook event. While
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direction we go and the only way to understand what is going on is by maintaining a busy lifestyle. Our lives are full with new technologies to maintain a busy lifestyle and all these technologies are explained by Sherry Turkle in her essay‚ “Alone Together.” In this essay Turkle provides examples on how new technologies are being used to keep us busy and how these new technologies allow us to keep our busy lives in tack. Also‚ capitalism has a large effect on people’s time consumption‚ people usually
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Sherry Turkle states that communication is important in any relationships and the idea that technology changes the way we communicate isn’t for the better in fact it creates a distraction to the relationship and the world around us. The chapter “Friendship” by Sherry Turkle explains how technology have interrupted friendships over the years and how people now care about media rather than friendship. Turkle states how technology affected the communication between people and their social skills‚ it
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The Loving Story The journey that Richard and Mildred Loving took is important for history and for the future of civil rights in the United States. I recently watched the documentary The Loving Story and enjoyed the footage‚ pictures‚ and interviews of everyone involved in the Loving v. Virginia case. The documentary addressed the issue of interracial marriage in Virginia in 1967. The married partners‚ Richard and Mildred‚ were woken up in the middle of the night and were criminally charged for
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