ALONE TOGETHER

I share, Therefore I am?

This book can give alarm signal to today's social trend. The author said that when we look at our social network access, she try to describe that behavior to come down to this sentence "I share, Therefore I am". When I watch her message during her TED speech, I have to give a big ovation to her. Nowadays, There are tremendous social networking applications which are forced to connect each other. If we feel that we are isolated from others, we feel nervous and insecure. We have to post anything we can do without any meaningful purpose, if we feel lonely. Habitually, fumble the pocket to get out phone and click to facebook or tweeter in order to make them know that I am here.

As the author quoted that we shape our buildings, then they shape us by the phrase of Winston Churchill. I will read her book after I finish reading the Novel.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do anything everywhere. We begin to feel overwhelmed and depleted by the technology. We may be free to work from everywhere, but we are prone to being lonely everywhere.

Alone Together is the result of MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle’s nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on interviews with hundreds of children and adults, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. It is a story of emotional dislocation, of risks taken unknowingly. But it is also a story of hope, for even in the places where digital saturation is greatest,there are people—especially the young—who are asking the hard questions about costs, about checks and balances, about returning to what is most sustaining about direct human connection. At the threshold of what Turkle calls “the robotic moment,” our devices prompt us to recall that we have human purposes and,perhaps, to rediscover what they are.

Her speech in TED

http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html