“The Flight from Conversation” written by Sherry Turkle, published in April 21 of 2012. This article demonstrate how technology influenced in everyday life. People with the technology in his hand have a very drastic change in their daily routine. The devices as cellphones, tables and others made it so easy to be connected with others, but at the same time this made a disconnection between each other. The article have examples of how people interactions changed in the last couple of years, how people  are not able to have a simple chat with a friend or colleague without using their electronic devices.

“Alone together” a simple idea is taking place all over the article. People without notice they been isolated in their own world,  they think they are in the same place but they are not, they feel the power of be what and where they want but at the same time they don’t notice that they just been one more of the thousands of slaves from technology.

Sherry Turkle thinks that everyday the population is loosing the freedon of be a unique individual with the capacity of having a conversation with others apart from an electronic device. She believes that technology should be use in other areas and not much in the individual life style,  been able to put a device a side should be easy, in order to be part of those moments that wouldn’t came back anymore, be able to have a chat between a boss and a worker , friend to friend or even between family members.

Sherry Turkle through her article “The Flight From Conversation” discusses how humans choose to communicate through technology rather than communicating through conversations. People are “alone together”(Page 1), they are focusing at the same time on many connections, which leads them to the dissociation of themselves from others. The author makes examples of how various individuals of different casts, social layers, and all ages willingly replace conversations by connections through innovations and technology. Sherry Turkle claims that connections give flexibility and customization, however, they make people lonely and fake, connections delude humans; she argues, “they do not substitute for conversations”(Page 2). The author gives strategies of how people can integrate conversations into their lives. She argues that it is necessary for humans to communicate through real life conversations rather than through innovative connections.

References:

1. Turkle Sherry, “The Flight From Conversation”, published April 21,2012.

In the article “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, the author discuss how technology have change the way people communicate over the years. The article discuss not only people don’t talk face to face to each other but would rather use text message or e-mail to communicate. In the article the author spent over 15 years studying people and ask them about the plugged in lives and found the mobile devices have change the way people not only what they do, but also who we are. People have become so accustomed to technologies that it is a new way of being alone together. A person have they personal space but can communicate with other without having to meet the other person. Not only have technology have change our personal lives but also change the way people communicate in the office. The boss can be in the office but can have a regular conversant with and employee without meeting them. Using technology to communicate commonly found among young people, a 16 years old boy who relies on texting for almost everything says almost wistfully. The act of having a conversation with face to face have change over the years, people rely on technology to communicate with each other.

Cited

Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2012.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The article “The Flight from Conversation” written by Sherry Turkle is about how technology eliminate conversation for connection. People’s lives are now “plugged-in”. Conversations are gone as families sit together, texting and reading email. At work, people text during meeting. Users are always connected with each other through their device. As the author stated, this technology has made the them “alone together”. Face to face conversation teaches human patience, and converse with ourselves. Sherry Turkle found in her research that people uses social media for automated listeners. Thus having companions. She believe constant connection will only make a person more lonely, and created a plan. To teach people about the value of conversation, homes need to have “device-free zones” for parents to talk with their children, or work environment, with employees. This will have them to listen to everything without the interruption of social media.

In her article “The Flight From Conversation” (2012), Sherry Turkle discusses a technological world we are now living in and a way it affects our communication. S. Turkle has studied technologies of mobile connection about 15 years, and has found that mobile phones have changed not only the we behave, but also our personalities. Being constantly connected with one another, in fact we are trying to hide ourselves from an actual communication. We are living in a technological world where people fear to have real conversations. Technology allows us to keep people at right distance, not too far, but not too close. E-mails, instant massages, posts in Facebook and “tweets” in Twitter cannot replace conversation, but they are taking more and more space in our lives.Technology makes us expect fast answer, while face-to-face conversation teaches us to be patient to a companion. Moreover, in the process of conversation with others we learn our personality. Technology takes away this possibility of self-reflection, instead it offers  to present ourselves in a way we want to be, but not in a way we truly are. It makes us believe that our retouched voices, faces and bodies are more appealing for others than our real personalities.In a world where we unlearned how to listen to each other, people tend to consider machines  as those who care about them. A boy wishes he could talk to an artificial intelligence program about dating, instead of talking to his father. Others hope that Siri (a digital assistant) will become more advanced, so that “she” will be more like a friend for them. In conclusion, S.Turkle states that the constant connection is completely differ from face-to-face conversation, and, in fact can make us feel more lonely.

Works cited

Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 13 Oct. 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

The Flight from Conversation written by Sherry Turkle is an article that raises awareness and gives us insight about how our method of communication is gradually changing from face to face conversations to messaging and social media. Additionally, it informs us about how this shift is affecting human relationship as a whole.

In the first section of the article, the author tells us about her personal anecdotes about people she spoke to of all ages. She shares her experiences about how technology has changed what people do and how it affects who they are. As people are becoming more technology-enabled, people are becoming more loyal to themselves and becoming more confined within their own bubble. One example that the author discusses this, is in paragraph 8 where she talks about a senior partner at a Boston law firm. The partner talks about how young associates lay out their suite of technologies, put their earphones on and mind their own business. The atmosphere is turned into an environment where everyone is quiet and loses it’s sense for interaction.

In the mid-section of the article, the author gives us examples on how technology affects human relationships and feelings. The author describes how human relationships are rich and complex, and because of technology, we are able to simplify it at the cost of understanding and knowing one another. The author goes deeper into saying how if we continually shortchange ourselves, we learn unfavorable habits such as asking simpler questions, diminish our ability to learn skills such as self-reflection and eventually dispense with people altogether. The author gives an example in paragraph 16 where she explains how high school sophomores would prefer to talk with an artificial intelligence program about dating instead of their parents. The sophomores argue that the artificial intelligence program would provide much more relevant information within their database than what their parents could offer.

The author brings in another example to further support how humans rely more on technology and less from one another. In paragraph 17, the author talks about her experience of how she brought a robot in the shape of a baby seal to an elder-care facility to comfort elderly people. The robot would act as a substitute for a person to listen and follow the conversation of elderly people. Following up on the author’s two examples, the author shows concern about how we have adopted the delusion of accepting simulations of compassion instead of authentic compassion that we would obtain from one another and questions whether we have lost trust in human relationships.

In the last section of the article, the author suggests a few methods on how we can break away from being constantly connected. In paragraph 25, she introduces the idea of creating spaces at home such as the kitchen where it will be device-free. The objective of this is to teach the value of conversation to our children. In the same paragraph, the author also suggests managers at workplaces to introduce a day where employees have conversations with one another listening to one another and revealing ourselves to one another.

Source: Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 13 Oct. 2014.

Sherry Turkle’s piece in the Sunday Times, “The Flight From Conversation,” expresses the difference between conversation/communication and how we are giving up conversation for mobile communication. Turkle explains what technology has done to society. How it has bought us closer, but at the same time made us more distant. “The littlest technology gadgets we have is not only changing what we do but how we are.” People become so engrossed with their technology that they forget about the world around them. We may sit together, “but each of us is in our own bubble, furiously connected to keyboards and tiny touch screens.”  This changes how we fundamentally behave and change the way we interact with each other, expecting faster answers. She concludes the article by saying that people need to and start conversations to get things back on track.

Turkle, Sherry. “The Flight From Conversation.” The New York Times 21 Apr. 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0