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Title: Alone Together
Subtitle: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Author: Sherry Turkle
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-10-11
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 175 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Technology
Publisher's Summary:
Consider Facebook - it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.
In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for - and sacrificing - in a world of electronic companions and social-networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.
Critic Reviews:
"Turkle's prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
EXCELLENT!
I would recommend this book to anyone who plans on living with computers and their progeny. (That's just about anyone breathing) ESPECIALLY parents of young children and those planning new families. One of the most interesting parts of the book is the effects of technology and high tech toys on children. Another fascinating subject is the effects of Facebook, other social networking sites, and mobile computing devises on teens. This was one of the most informative and interesting books I've read so far this year, (I read 3 or 4 books a week) A very good narrator who kept the story going. Crisp and insightful! Well done, 5 stars!
Depressing narrator
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The narrator not sounding like Siri or any other virtual assistant. I want to listen to a book that doesn't sound depressing after all, this one isn't SUPPOSED to be.
What didnt you like about Laural Merlingtons performance?
She sounds like a machine reading a script she's tired of. I cannot stress this enough: do not buy the audiobook. If you have a soul, it will take the meaning of the book and turn it into something completely disheartening. The book is meant to tell us about something we need to fix, not make us feel terrible about the problem. Merlington's voice does not embody the former, but instead incorporates the latter in a most annoying manner. I couldn't listen to more than half an hour without going crazy and deleting it.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The book is fine; the audiobook is rubbish. I would like to hear someone else read it, but there are no other choices at the moment.
Any additional comments?
Don't buy it unless you want to listen to a robot read you something. It's neither pleasant nor fulfilling.
Important work, but far too long
Sherry Turkle cites in great detail several case studies she's done with people interacting with robots, toys, and social media and then gives her own commentary.
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Title: Alone Together
Subtitle: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Author: Sherry Turkle
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-10-11
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 175 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Technology
Publisher's Summary:
Consider Facebook - it's human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.
In Alone Together, MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for - and sacrificing - in a world of electronic companions and social-networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.
Critic Reviews:
"Turkle's prescient book makes a strong case that what was meant to be a way to facilitate communications has pushed people closer to their machines and further away from each other." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
EXCELLENT!
I would recommend this book to anyone who plans on living with computers and their progeny. (That's just about anyone breathing) ESPECIALLY parents of young children and those planning new families. One of the most interesting parts of the book is the effects of technology and high tech toys on children. Another fascinating subject is the effects of Facebook, other social networking sites, and mobile computing devises on teens. This was one of the most informative and interesting books I've read so far this year, (I read 3 or 4 books a week) A very good narrator who kept the story going. Crisp and insightful! Well done, 5 stars!
Depressing narrator
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The narrator not sounding like Siri or any other virtual assistant. I want to listen to a book that doesn't sound depressing after all, this one isn't SUPPOSED to be.
What didnt you like about Laural Merlingtons performance?
She sounds like a machine reading a script she's tired of. I cannot stress this enough: do not buy the audiobook. If you have a soul, it will take the meaning of the book and turn it into something completely disheartening. The book is meant to tell us about something we need to fix, not make us feel terrible about the problem. Merlington's voice does not embody the former, but instead incorporates the latter in a most annoying manner. I couldn't listen to more than half an hour without going crazy and deleting it.
You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The book is fine; the audiobook is rubbish. I would like to hear someone else read it, but there are no other choices at the moment.
Any additional comments?
Don't buy it unless you want to listen to a robot read you something. It's neither pleasant nor fulfilling.
Important work, but far too long
Sherry Turkle cites in great detail several case studies she's done with people interacting with robots, toys, and social media and then gives her own commentary.