Is There a Course on How to Talk?

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The conversation, which such a human as part of human experience, is something that we're presumed to just learn through growing up. But here's an observation i made resen in, remember which episode? You think it strange that we don't have any formal, even informal, ways of teaching people how to have a conversation. The culture hasn't caught up to the culture. And what's very sad is that if you take people out of class rooms and put them in virtual class rooms, you take awayaa premium place for learning conversations.

Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, The Empathy Diaries, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute observer, skilled at revealing the story behind the story. She also chronicles the early days of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the computer. Topics in this conversation include the challenges of family, the role of technology in our lives, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the importance of Bambi.