5.21.2018

Sherry Turkle : Connected, but alone?


Sherry Turkle at TED2012
Connected, but alone?  (transcript)
Summary
The speaker might give up talking about this problem already.
The problem in the talk of 2012 was for everyone to use texts too much without meeting face to face recently and the suggestion she showed was to make time when you didn't use your smartphone, 1) to create sacred spaces at home and at work where all members of a family or coworkers didn't have TV, computer and smartphones, 2) and to listen to each other or one another. 3)

Now, the situation must be worse but people won't think that this is the problem.

Their smartphone offer people gratifying fantasies.
People can put their attention wherever they want it to be,1) feel to be heard always, 2) and  can think that they never have to be alone. 3)
People must be changed their psyches completely by what they never have to be alone.

People, now, see their smartphones always, even if they are with friends or with their family or their children call them.

Now, people won't think that they have to cultivate the capacity for solitude and appreciate who people are without their smartphones.
Although it will be said that the true capability for solitude and the true feeling to appreciate is not cultivated by using smartphones, no one notices those. Time runs like that.

Words in this story
psyches /noun/  soul, spirit, (inner) self, ego
substitution /noun/  exchange, change, replacement
capability /noun/  ability, capacity, power
capacity /noun/  volume, size, magnitude

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