In ‘We, Robots’ by Jonah Lehrer, he started with a more positive book, Life on the Screen, from Sherry Turkle, but then hit hard with the phrase ‘optimism is long gone’ after he started to explain Alone Together. Lehrer used many examples to explain Turkle’s frame of reference of the digital world. The first two affects the reader with emotion. Using Roxxxy as an example really stuck me as the reader. He quotes Turkle to make sure the reader understands how she believes that technology is becoming too convenient. He uses pathos for his argument. He uses emotional stories about like how Edna, the elderly lady, became attached to a plastic baby and ignored her granddaughter. Lehrer explained a few faults like how ‘her ethnographic
