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Summary of Alone Together by Sherry Turkle | Free Audiobook

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Technology is seductive. It takes us away from our real life vulnerabilities and allows us to enter a world with the illusion of companionship, without the demands of friendship. On second life, people create avitars who represent themselves that are often richer, younger, thinner and trendier than their real live selves. Technology also allows us to stay in touch with one another while simultaneously hiding from each other. Follow along as sherry turkle explains the social repecussions of techno ogy. The more advanced we get, the less connected we become.

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