Alone Together

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.