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Summary of Alone Together by Sherry Turkle | Free Audiobook

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The Tomagache - A Digital Toy

In the late 19 nineties, the tomagache became a wildly popular digital toy. One researcher even tested just how much humans become attached to digital creatures. She aimed to discover under what conditions a creature is deemed alive enough for people to explain an ethical dilemma if the creature is distressed. Ultimately, when robots feel or act real, we experience an ethical dilemma when we are asked to put them in distress.

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