The Development Of Technology In Alone Together By Sherry Turkle

The development of technology has allowed people to live faster, easier, and more convenience lives. People can save their time compared with the past in every area they want, and they can have more choices to access of resources. For example, the discovery of the internet contributes to saving time and having more opportunities to search information about everything that people want. Those developments influence various changes in human beings’ lives. Sherry Turkle, the author of “Alone Together”, explains how the development of technology influences human connection. Turkle says that technology causes new form of relationships—robotic and computer relationships—among people and it gives another view of the intimacy. Lauren Slater, the author

Slater claims that technology gives another possible treatment (DBS) to psychiatric disorder patients and it brings out moral issues which people can face on. Therefore, human beings links to technology intensively and it influences human beings’ overall lives from the way how they thinking to the way how they behave.

Technology allows people to view the subject in different way because it soaks through the human beings’ lives deeply. As the technology is developed, it offers more opportunities and approaches to experience the ‘thing’ that they never can experience in the past. Turkle demonstrates an example how technology is absorbed into human being’s lives and offers new experience in contemporary society. In her article, she explains Miriam and Paro’s story which is about the relationship between human beings and robot. When Turkle illustrates the situation that Miriam shares her sad emotion with the therapeutic robot named Paro, she mentions “[…] people willing to seriously consider robots not only as pets but as potential friends, confidants, and even romantic partners. […] At the robotic moment, the performance of connection seems connection enough”

Electronic devices, such as computer or cell phone, are crucial to proceed their business in the workplace because it allows people to be connected for sharing information efficiently, but people actually want to be connected anywhere which means not only in the workplace but also in the private life. Because of the desire to be connected anytime and anywhere, it becomes the problem of addiction. Turkle claims that “whether or not our devices are in use, without them we feel disconnected, adrift. A danger even to ourselves, we insist on our right to send text messages while driving our cars and object to rules that would limit the practice” (277). People have to focus on face to face relationship when they are staying with others but they tend to miss authentic relationship because they focus on their personal networking. It makes the loneliness in the crowd. Also, for instance, people have to focus on safe when they are driving but their electronic connection makes them to think about other things which are not important than safe. Like this, efficient technology connection causes addition which could be a dangerous problem for people’s lives. Slater also illustrates another problem from technology development which could be the controversial issues among the people. In Slater’s article, Cosgrove said, “We don’t