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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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Sold by Sherry Turkle

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How are reviewers describing this item?
human, real, many and new.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.

Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 273 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 22 2020.

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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

I never understood how technology could replace human facetoface interaction and what is even more baffling to me is that many people opt for technology over human facetoface interaction

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

In part i turkle starts off by discussing sociable robots and how humans start developing emotional connections with these robots

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Furbies look similar to real animals and have fake fur they make sounds as well

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The issue with this is that a robot cannot actually feel pain but because when you do something ‘harmful’ to it it sounds like it’s in pain and we start to forget that it’s fake

Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

Children take care of aibo similarly to how they’d take care of a pet dog however when they have no more patience for aibo they just shut it off because it’s a machine

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This did not sit well with me

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Turkle moves on to discuss a girl by the name of nicole

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