Alone together..

Sherry Turkle is an anthropologist, analyst and clinical psychologist, a professor at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America, and the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and the Self. That is, there is no one better than her to speak to us in a valuable book about our relationship with technology, and where no one has preceded her in expressing it with enthusiasm and intelligence. , in this book, about what we do to ourselves by replacing social interaction with technology. Terkel argues stimulatingly and troublingly that Internet use has as much power to isolate and destroy relationships as it can bring us together. This is indeed what we all live in at a time when our connection to phone screens and all electronic devices has become greater than our connection to anything else. Terkel is also a gifted, creative writer who makes interesting arguments in an engaging way, and what she brings to the topic, which is a new one in itself, is more than a decade of interviews with teenagers and college students, during which she examines the psychological impact of our brave new devices on a new generation that seems more comfortable with those devices. Terkel discusses the present and future of technology, its relationship with humans and its impact on them, and makes us prepare for the near world of robotics, where there will be a robot companion for children, and robot babysitters and the elderly. We have to imagine a machine that could become an extension of the human body. What about using technology, such as prosthetic limbs, for example? Will we treat the robot as a pet or as a person? Many questions will be answered in this unique book.