phd Isaac Newton / Sherry

Sherry Turkle raises concerns about our new dependence on mobile devices, including the fact that “We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.” She is particularly worried about young people in this new social landscape. Given that these technologies are not going away, what might we do to attenuate the problems she describes?  

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

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