Monday, January 18, 2016

Summary of "Stop googling. Let's talk."


In the essay,"Stop googling.Let's talk" in new york times at September 26,2015, Sherry Turkle, professor in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT talk about how technology has changed our conversation and connection and about our resilence. Technology that she mentioned in this essay is especially cell phone. First, she explains how cell phone affect to our conversation. A 2015 study by the Pew research center shows that 82 percent of adults felt that the way they used their cell phone hurt the conversation. The author also says the mere precence of cell phone changes both what they talk about and the degree of connection they feel, even a silent phone disconnectes us. These a study and what author says means using cell phone and the presence of it hurt our conversation and connection. She also explains how technology affect to our empathy. According to her, the old conversation taught empathy. However, recently we don't allow that conversation to happen in the first place. Therefore,she think students understand each other less. The other issue of technology is that we fall to the way of thinking that we expect the world to respond like an app and work like algorithms.People whose attitude is like that seem to have lack of empathy.
However, we have not only problems but also solutions. She says we are resilent.There is experiment whose result is that people became able to read emotions and correctly identify emotions after five days without phones or tablets. We have resilence. The conversation can solve not only problem of empathy but also the way of thinking "algorithm". She states conversation is the antidote to the angorithmic.  To conclude, we should admit the unitended consequences of the technologies,but also we can respect the resilence so we can recover from these problems.

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