“Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanized that we lose our human feelings.” People have become so attached to their technological devices that they become isolated from the real world at the same time. In her essay, “The Flight from Conversation”, published in 2012 by the New York Times magazine, Sherry Turkle argues how technology has taken over our lives, and people have steered away from conversations with one another. Sherry Turkle effectively builds her credibility by using personal experiences, successfully employing some emotional appeal, and using logical ideas to make it known to the reader about the damaging effects that technology is having on human relationships and real face to face conversations.
In her essay, Turkle first acknowledges how we all “live in a technological world where we are always communicating, but
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In her essay Turkle writes, “One of my most haunting experiences” (page 51), was one in which an elderly woman was comforted by a robot that seemed to be listening. She was speaking to it about the loss of her child which is a sorrowful moment, since the robot doesn’t really understand what this woman is going through, where as a human will understand the sadness that the woman is experiencing. Towards the end of her writing Turkle says, “If we don’t teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely.” (Page 52) This quote is important because it’s saying how people and kids have become so attached to technology, that if they lose contact with it for a moment, they will feel lost in the world. If all of a person’s relationships consist of technology, what will happen when there is an error with technology; people will not know how to converse with the people around them, because they only connected through