Alone Together by Sherry Turkle: The Impact of Technology on Human Relationships

In Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together, we need to consider more carefully the ways we interact with one another face-to-face. The lack of parental focus is a big concern for families and school. Oppenheimer, “Technology is not driving us apart after all”, describes how Professor Hampton and his associates filmed the human interactions of people in public places for example. In the process, researchers wanted to learn more about how today’s digital devices affect those interactions. Sherry Turkle’s Alone collectively highlights the unsettling reality that at today’s world we have more from application and less from each other. This, in exchange, is Turkle’s main premise and her statement throughout the novel. Her dissertation is displayed at the top of her novel where she gets images explaining what she thinks. There are five distinct pictures on the top of her novel that all describe Turkle’s thought of asking more from technology and less from each other. There are four people displayed only of changing other ages, races, and genders. The thing that these pictures have in common is the fact that they are totally concentrated on this part of engineering at their hands. The final picture displays a group of kids standing together, but they are not actually together. They seem to all exist on their phones and their own separate world. When I first looked at the back, I found myself referring to those sorts of situations. For example, one situation is walking to class.

As the years continue, we carve technology increasingly we begin to grow more unsocial and like technology at experiencing things. In Sherry Turkle’s novel “Alone Together”, she talks about the effects of application on us nowadays. She is a psychoanalytically educated scientist and puts higher value on human interactions. She illustrates the moment when she brought her girl to the Darwin Show in the American Museum of Physical History and was in position for something and needed the parent if they cared the turtles were alive. The twelve-year-old girl answered, “For what the turtles do, you didn’t get to take these live one” (Turkle 266). That starts to show how technology is taking over our lives even at our teenage kids. The person is so used to everything in her being electric that she doesn’t find the amount of getting live turtles in the cooler for artistic purposes.