Turkle, however, believes the infatuation with technology will lessen, and people will be better able to balance the real and the virtual parts of their lives.
"Ultimately, we're going to find a way to live in both ways at the same time - be nicer to each other in real life and not be clueless to the person sitting next to them," she says. "We'll settle down and have greater civility and care."
i don't know about these veiws. i very much believe the differ. then again, it is really relivent to the environment, but i do not think this new generation networked with the information and digital age is going to dwindle away; rather, i think it will create a whole new revolution of disconnectivity in the empirical form and everyone will become more reliant upon it - the pseudo disconnectivity of being virtually networked in a meme of the internet, televition, and other forms of multi-media. i do not think this will detriment our ability to be progressive as a human race, but it will defiantly create a whole new revolution in the behavior attributes of the physcological mind as well as intercultural communication adn global unification - how, i can not say so bluntly ... but observingly, i see it everywhere around me.
Re: ah .. hmmm ....octi_stripeJune 20 2006, 15:08:37 UTC
Sherry Turkle's book should be easy to find on Amazon. While a lot of her work is interesting, I'm similarly skeptical of her conclusions. She imagines humanity moving towards a techno-utopia, suggesting that technological advances will solve a lot of problems, which may be true, but she doesn't acknowledge that with that change, there are likely to be problems we can't account for right now.
Re: ah .. hmmm ....tenebrosityJune 20 2006, 17:40:23 UTC
i know i read some turkle during my masters in 2000, would it have been the same book? for some reason it sounded more up-to-date. if it is the same, i will go dig it out from moving boxes ;)
"Ultimately, we're going to find a way to live in both ways at the same time - be nicer to each other in real life and not be clueless to the person sitting next to them," she says. "We'll settle down and have greater civility and care."
i don't know about these veiws. i very much believe the differ. then again, it is really relivent to the environment, but i do not think this new generation networked with the information and digital age is going to dwindle away; rather, i think it will create a whole new revolution of disconnectivity in the empirical form and everyone will become more reliant upon it - the pseudo disconnectivity of being virtually networked in a meme of the internet, televition, and other forms of multi-media. i do not think this will detriment our ability to be progressive as a human race, but it will defiantly create a whole new revolution in the behavior attributes of the physcological mind as well as intercultural communication adn global unification - how, i can not say so bluntly ... but observingly, i see it everywhere around me.
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